McGuirk's Mississippi Cavalry Regiment

McGuirk's Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (Third Mississippi Cavalry Regiment)
Active	1863–1865
Country	Confederate States
Allegiance	Mississippi
Branch	Confederate States Army
Type	Cavalry
Size	Regiment
Part of	Adams' Brigade
Nickname(s)	"McGuirk's regiment"
Facings	Yellow
Campaigns	Civil War Mississippi River Atlanta
Disbanded	May 12, 1865
Commanders
Commander	John McGuirk

McGuirk's Mississippi Cavalry Regiment (Third Mississippi Cavalry Regiment) was a formation in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, and was commanded by Colonel John McGuirk.^[1]

History

McGuirk's Regiment was organized on June 9, 1863 in the Mississippi Militia at Panola from new and existing companies of cavalry as the Third Regiment, Mississippi State Cavalry, and assigned to the Fifth Military District, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana.^[2] It was reorganized in April, 1864, and mustered into Confederate service on May 3, 1864 as Third (McGuirk's) Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry. McGuirk's Regiment surrendered on May 4, 1865.^[3]

Regimental order of battle

Units of McGuirk's Regiment included:

• Company A
• Company B
• Company C
• Company D
• Company E
• Company F
• Company G
• Company H
• Company I
• Company K^[4]

See also

• List of Mississippi Civil War Confederate units

Notes

1. Sifakis 1995, pp. 41-42.
2. Hooker 1889, p. 130.
3. Crute 1987, pp. 166-67.
4. Rowland 1908, pp. 518-20.

References

• Crute, Joseph H. Jr. (1987). Units of the Confederate States Army (2nd ed.). Gaithersburg, Md.: Olde Soldier Books. ISBN 0-942211-53-7.
• Rowland, Dunbar (ed.) (1908). Military History of Mississippi: 1803-1898. Jackson, Miss.: The Reprint Company (published 2011). ISBN 978-0-87152-266-5. LCCN 78-2454.
• Sifakis, Stewart (1995). Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Mississippi. New York: Facts On File, Inc. ISBN 0-8160-2292-5.
• Wheeler, Maj.-Gen. Joseph; Hooker, Col. Charles E. (1899). Evans, Brig.-Gen. Clement A., ed. Confederate Military History XII. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing.

Further reading

• Allardice, Bruce S. (2008). Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1809-4.
• C.S. War Dept. (1863). Regulations for the Army of the Confederate States, 1863 (2nd ed.). Richmond, Virginia: J. W. Randolph. Retrieved May 25, 2014.
• Jordon, [Brig.] Gen. Thomas; Pryor, J. P. (1868). The Campaigns of Lieut.-Gen. N.B. Forrest, and of Forrest's Cavalry, with Portraits, Maps and Illustrations. New Orleans, La., Memphis, Tenn., and New York: Bielock & Company. Retrieved October 10, 2015.
• Montgomery, Lieut.-Col. Frank A. (1901). Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War (1st ed.). Cincinnati, Ohio: The Robert Clark Company Press. Retrieved November 16, 2014.
• Roberts, Bobby and Carl Moneyhon (1993). Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-260-9.
• Smith, Timothy B. (2012). James Z. George: Mississippi's Great Commoner. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press. ISBN 978-1-61703-231-8.
• "U.S. Army Campaigns: Civil War". Center of Military History. United States Army. Retrieved 18 January 2015.
• Wheeler, Maj.-Gen. Joseph; Hooker, Col. Charles E. (1899). Evans, Brig.-Gen. Clement A., ed. Confederate Military History XII. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing.