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Submitted: 1/19/11 • Approved: 1/21/11 • Last Updated: 8/30/12 • R449592-G0-S3
COLONEL CSA
5 Regiment Mississippi Infantry
Civil War Confederate
December 3, 1828 - August 26, 1882
Residence in 1860: Pontotoc County, Mississippi
Delegate to Mississippi Secession Convention, January 9, 1861, from Pontotoc County, MS
January, 1864, Lieut-Col. John B. Herring, commanding, in J. K. Jackson's Brigade, Cheatham's Division. February 2, while the army was in winter quarters around Dalton, Ga., the brigade was transferred to Gen. W. H. T. Walker's Division, mainly Georgian, there being four Georgia regiments associated with the Fifth and Eighth Mississippi in this brigade. In the midst of the Atlanta campaign Jackson's Brigade was broken up and the Fifth and Eighth were assigned to the Georgia and South Carolina brigade of Gen. States Rights Gist, being so returned July 10.
December 3, 1828 - August 26, 1882
Contributed on 1/19/11 by richard110
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