Lorenzo D. Covington, Private, (Old) Company C, 13th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers,* enlisted May 14, 1861 at Corinth, Miss.. for 12 months, died of Diarrhoea August 5, 1861 at Leesburg, Va., Clarisa Covington, widow of Dow Covington, filed claim for his pay and allowances, description on enlisment, married 35 year old Farmer, born in Mississippi, resident of Waynesboro, 5' 9", fair complexion, blue eyes, red hair

*This company was successively designated as Captain Eckford's Company, Mississippi Volunteers, and as Captain Eckford's Company, (Old) Company C, and (New) Company B, 13th Regiment Mississippi Infantry

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

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Company C Record of Events

Stationed at Corinth, Mississippi, May 23, 1861.

May 23.— Muster-in roll of Captain James W. Carter's Company
C, in the Thirteenth Regiment of Mississippi Volunteers, com-
manded by Colonel William Barksdale, called into the service of
the Confederate States in the Provisional Army under the provi-
sions of the Act of Congress passed February —, 1861 by —
from May 14, 1861 (date of this muster) for the term of one year
unless sooner discharged. . . .
W. S. WALKER,
Captain,
Confederate States Army, Mustering Officer.

Stationed at Union City Post, Tennessee, July 4, 1861.

July 4.— Muster-in roll of Captain James W. Carter's New Com-
pany C, formerly old Company F, in the Thirteenth Regiment of
Mississippi Volunteers, commanded by Colonel William Barks-
dale, called into the service of the Confederate States in the Pro-
visional Army under the provisions of the Act of Congress passed February —, 1861 by — from July 4, 1861 (date of this
muster) for the term of one year or the war unless sooner dis-
charged. . . .
W. S. WALKER,
Captain,
Confederate States Army, Mustering Officer.

Stationed at Leesburg, Virginia, [July 51, 1861-February I, 1862.