W B. McNeese, resident of Lauderdale County, enlisted as a Private in (New) Company I, 8th Mississippi Infantry*, January 15, 1863 at Bridgeport, Alabama by Lieutenant Stokes for 12 months, admitted to Ocmulgee Hospital, Macon, Georgia September 12, 1864, Remittant Fever, transferred October 12, captured at Franklin, Tennessee December 17, 1864, admitted December 23 to U. S. A. General Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee, Convalescent, age 17, forwarded to Camp Chase, Ohio prison camp arriving January 15, 1865, died February 17, 1865 of Pneumonia, buried in grave #1316, 1/3 mile south of the Camp Chase

* This company was successively designated as Captain Knox's Company, (Old) Company G, and (New) Company I, 8th Regiment Mississippi Infantry

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James McNeese, age 22, enlisted in Captain J. G. Knox's Company, 8th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers**, August 15, 1861 at Rushing's Store by J. G. Knox, captured at Franklin, Tennessee December 17,1864, admitted to U. S. A. General Hospital, Nashville, Tennessee December 23, 1864, gunshot, con. ball, fracture of left ulna upper 3", sent to Rock Island Barracks, Illinois prison camp arriving February 18, 1865, transferred to Point Lookout, Maryland prison camp March 13, 1865 for exchange, admitted to Receiving and Wayside Hospital, General Hospital No. 9, Richmond, Virginia March 23, 1865, transferred to Howard Grove Hospital March 24, 1865, no further records

** This company was successively designated as Captain Knox'w Company, (Old) Company G, and (New) Company I, 8th Regiment Mississippi Infantry

Record of Events Company I

Station not stated, August 7, 1861.
Stationed at Camp Barksdale near Enterprise, October 5, 1861.
Stationed at Enterprise, Mississippi, October 18, 1861.
October 18.— Muster-in roll of Captain J. G. Knox's Company,
in the Eighth Regiment of Mississippi Volunteers, commanded by
Colonel G. G. Flynt, called into the service of the Confederate
States in the Provisional Army, under the provisions of the Act of
Congress passed, by orders of the President, February —, 1861
by General A. S. Johnston from October 18, 1861 (date of this
muster) for their unexpired term, unless sooner discharged. . . .
J. S. LANIER,
Lieutenant,
Confederate States Army, Mustering Officer.

Stationed at Camp Davis, Town Point, near Pensacola, Florida,
October 18-December 31, 1861.
Station not stated, January-February 1862.
Stationed at barracks near Fort Barrancas, Florida, March-April
1862.
Stationed at Smith's Cross-Roads, Tennessee, (May] August 1862.
This company was enlisted in the state service by Captain J.
G. Knox.
[For record of events, see Company H.]

Stationed at camp, Eighth Mississippi Regiment, near Knoxville,
Tennessee, September-October 1862.
Stationed at Bridgeport, Alabama, January-June 1863.
Stationed near Chattanooga, Tennessee, July-August 1863.
Stationed at Dalton, Georgia, January-April 1864.

M269: Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soliders Who Served in Organizations from the State of Mississippi