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The 43rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment was a regiment of infantry in the
Confederate States Army The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting ...
. It fought in many battles and campaigns of the
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. It was known as "The Camel Regiment".


Organization

The 43rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment was organized on August 7, 1862, and commanded by Colonel William Hudson Moore. *Company A – Frank Rodgers Rifles (Monroe County) *Company B – Lowndes Riflemen (Lowndes County) *Company C – Whitfield Guards (Monroe County) *Company D – Capt. Thompson's Company (Choctaw County) *Company E – Capt. Smith's Company (Pontotoc County) *Company F – Capt. Hampton's Company (Lowndes County) *Company G – Capt. Winter's Company (Monroe County) *Company H – Itawamba Tigers (Itawamba County) *Company I – Capt. Banks Company (Lowndes County) *Company K – Kemper Fencibles (Kemper County) *Company L – Gholson's Rebels (Monroe County)Howell, p. 596, 648


Service history

Serving in the Army of the West of Gen.
Sterling Price Major-General Sterling "Old Pap" Price (September 14, 1809 – September 29, 1867) was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who commanded infantry in the Western and Trans-Mississippi theaters of the American Civil War. Prior to ...
, the first battle that the 43rd fought was at Iuka. At the Battle of Second Corinth Colonel William Hudson Moore add Lieutenant-Colonel Richard W. Leigh were killed by Union forces. After the battle, Richard Harrison was promoted to Colonel and Columbus "Lum" Sykes promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel. Their next battles were during Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's
Vicksburg Campaign The Vicksburg campaign was a series of maneuvers and battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War directed against Vicksburg, Mississippi, a fortress city that dominated the last Confederate States of America, Confederate-controlled ...
between April and July 1863. At the
Siege of Vicksburg The siege of Vicksburg (May 18 – July 4, 1863) was the final major military action in the Vicksburg campaign of the American Civil War. In a series of maneuvers, Union Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and his Army of the Tennessee crossed the Mis ...
a mine blew up killing six members from the 43rd. The regiment was part of General Hebert's brigade defending the Third Louisiana Redan. In September 1863, Company H (Captain Merriman Pound's Battalion) of the 43rd Mississippi was ordered to join Braxton Bragg's
Army of the Tennessee An army (from Old French ''armee'', itself derived from the Latin verb ''armāre'', meaning "to arm", and related to the Latin noun ''arma'', meaning "arms" or "weapons"), ground force or land force is a fighting force that fights primarily on ...
in
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. Pound's Battalion fought at the
Battle of Chickamauga The Battle of Chickamauga, fought on September 19–20, 1863, between U.S. and Confederate forces in the American Civil War, marked the end of a Union offensive, the Chickamauga Campaign, in southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. ...
. Chickamauga was a victory for the Confederacy. After Chickamauga, Pound's Battalion was sent back to
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and some of the 43rd rode with General Forrest to drive Union forces out of the state]. The regiment was sent to Georgia to fight in the Atlanta Campaign against William T. Sherman's invading Federal army]. In
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, the regiment hauled cannons up the side of Kennesaw Mountain. After Atlanta was lost, the 43rd fought in General John Bell Hood's Tennessee Campaign which included the Battles of Franklin and Nashville. Afterwards it was sent to the Carolinas and fought at the Battles of Kinston and Bentonville, North Carolina. The 43rd Mississippi was part of the Gen. Joe Johnston's surrender of the Army of Tennessee at
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on April 26, 1865. The army was soon disbanded and the men of the 43rd walked back to their home state and rebuilt their communities.


See also

* List of Mississippi Civil War Confederate units


Notes


References

* *{{cite book, author=W. Scott Bell, title=The Camel Regiment: A History of the Bloody 43rd Mississippi Volunteer Infantry 1862-65, year=2017 , publisher= Pelican Publishing Co., isbn=9781455623075 Military units and formations disestablished in 1865 Military units and formations established in 1862 Units and formations of the Confederate States Army from Mississippi 1862 establishments in Mississippi