Enlisted as a Private
"F" Co. MS 8th Infantry
Other Information:
Buried: Beauvoir Confederate Cemetery, Biloxi, MS

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- Index to Compiled Confederate Military Service Records
- Research by R. Ross Houston

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John Overstreet

Enlisted as a Private
"F" Co. MS 8th Infantry

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Officers of Company F (Moody True Blues)

Green C. Chandler, Capt., dropped May 6, 1862
Andrew E. Moody, Capt., to Maj.
Francis M. Meek, 2nd Lt., dropped May 6, 1862
Pleasant L. Phillips, 2nd Lt., dropped May 6, 1862
A. T. Croft, 1st Lt.
H. H. Skaggs, 2nd Lt., killed February 1, 1864
E. P. Small, 2nd Lt.
H. D. Moody, 2nd Lt.
J. T. Dozier, 2nd Lt.
Afterwards Company D

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Company F (Moody True Blues) Record of Events

Stationed at Camp Barksdale, August 25, 1861.
Stationed at Camp Barksdale, September 5-October 5, 1861.
Stationed at Enterprise, Mississippi, October 18, 1861.
October 18.— Muster-in roll of Captain A. McNeill's Company,
in the Eighth Regiment of Mississippi Volunteers, commanded by Colonel G. G. Flynt, called into the service of the Confederate
States in the Provisional Army, under the provisions of the Act of Congress passed, by orders of the President, February —, 1861
by General A. S. Johnston from October 18, 1861 (date of this
muster) for their unexpired term, unless sooner discharged. . . .
J. S. LANIER,
Lieutenant,
Confederate States Army, Mustering Officer.

Stationed at Camp Burt near Warrington, Florida, October 18-
December 31, 1861.
Stationed at Camp Jones near Warrington, Florida, January-
February 1862.
Stationed at Fort Barrancas near Warrington, Florida, March-
April 1862.
Stationed at Smith's Cross-Roads, Tennessee, [May] August 1862.
Station not stated, September-October 1862.

Stationed at Bridgeport, Alabama, January-June 1863.
Stationed at Chattanooga, Tennessee, July-August 1863.
Stationed at Dalton, Georgia, January-February 1864.

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B. R. [Bowie Robertston] Overstreet, Private, (New) Company F, 8th Mississippi Volunteers,* enlisted May 16,1862 at Mobile, Alabama, discharged from General Hospital, Cleveland, Tenn. November 19, 1862, discharged by reason of disability same date, description, age 20, 5' 11", Farmer, light complexion, blue eyes, dark hair

* This company was successively designated as Captain Gates' Company, Captain McNeill's Company, (Old) Company K, and (New) Company F, 8th Regiment Mississippi Infantry

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John Overstreet, age 24, Private, Capt. A. McNeill's Company, 8th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers,* enlisted October 18, 1861 at Enterprise, Miss. by Lt. J. S. Lanier, discharged for disability November 8, 1862

M269: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Mississippi