Category: 30th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, United States Civil War
Categories: Mississippi, United States Civil War | Confederate Army Regiments, United States Civil War | Battle of Perryville | Battle of Chickasaw Bayou
30th Regiment, Mississippi Infantry organized during the early summer of 1862 at Grenada, Mississippi. Its members were raised in the counties of Lafayette, Choctaw, Montgomery, Grenada, Yazoo, and Carroll. After serving in Kentucky the unit was assigned to General Walthall's and Brantly's Brigade, Army of Tennessee. It fought with the army from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, was with Hood in Tennessee, and saw action in North Carolina. It sustained 209 casualties at Murfreesboro, 124 at Chickamauga, and 149 at Chattanooga. In December, 1863, it was consolidated with the 29th and 34th Regiments, and totalled 554 men and 339 arms. This unit lost 9 killed and 29 wounded at Resaca, and the 29th/30th lost 8 killed and 20 wounded at Ezra Church. Only a remnant surrendered on April 26, 1865.
Officers:
Colonels G F Neill and James I Scales, Lieutenant Colonels James M Johnson and Hugh A Reynolds, and Major John K Allen.
See:
- Dunbar Rowland’s “Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898”, taken from the Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi.
- National Park Service Soldiers and Sailors Database.
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