Alan Pitts
your list of units
Mon Dec 25 20:37:43 2000


You're correct about different colonels for the 22nd & 27th Tenn. "Tennesseans in the War" addresses the subject of the 22nd at Camp Beauregard and concludes there's "no record" it ever was. Later assignments lead me to believe that transcribers misread '27' for '22', and that Col. Williams' 27th Tenn. was connected with Bowen's command.

Neely's & Haywood's Tennessee cavalry companies were attached to Logwood's Cavalry Battalion in this area. Ditto for Lt.Col. Miller's Mississippi Cavalry Battalion. The 12th, 13th and 22nd Tennessee (Russell's Brigade) were at Columbus and probably passed through CB. 6th Miss., Col. John J. Thornton, also at Columbus, but not the 12th. Richard Griffith's 12th Miss. was in VA; either the 14th/15th Mississippi could be intended. No possibility the 28th Miss. ever was there, but the 23rd Miss. was. Another transcription error? 23rd was organized out of Alcorn's 2nd State (sixty-day) Reg't. Dunbar Rowland says this unit suffered from typhoid and measles that winter and forty-five memers are buried at Hopkinsville.

Abbay's battery, Co. "K", 1st Miss. Art. Regt., was never ever north of the Mississippi state line. Don't know much about about Missouri and Kentucky units, but reasonably certain the 5th MO Cav. (Battn.) and 12th KY didn't exist in 1861. Quite possible that Kentucky units passed through CB; there's mention of "Wickliffe" in OR correspondence related to CB; probably a Kentucky officer. I'll check.

To round out your list, I wondered if "Col. Barnum" might really be Col. Bonham of the 22nd Miss. at CB. Capt. Jacob B. Biffle led a company on Cox's Tennessee Cav. Battn. nearby; Stanton's 25th TN was on the opposite side of the state with Zollicofer. Found no reference to Col. B. Williams of Mississippi, but might have overlooked him.

I used the few minutes before Christmas dinner and dinner recovery to do the research: takes longer to type than to read. Could some of these burials have been sick POW's dropped off on the way north? That's the only way I could explain some of your references like Abbay's Battery.

• lists of units- clarifying and mystery — Daniel A. Lonsway, Tue Dec 26 13:51
• Units in the area — Alan Pitts, Wed Dec 27 13:55
• Camp Beauregard- sorting it all out. — Daniel Allen Lonsway, Mon Dec 25 23:24
• Brewer's Cavalry Battalion — Alan Pitts, Wed Dec 27 22:04
• Walker's/Baskerville's Cav. Battalion — Hayes Lowe, Fri Dec 29 11:39