W H. Dyre, age 26, Private, Captain W. C. Staples’ Company, 24th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers,* enlisted August 16, 1861 at Greensboro, Miss. by Capt. Staples, for the war, killed at the battle of Perryville, Ky. October 8, 1862, initially recorded on October 31, 1862 as absent, wounded, resident of Choctaw County, no further records

* This company subsequently became Company K (Choctaw Rebels), 24th Regiment Mississippi Infantry

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

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Company K -- Choctaw Rebels (raised in Choctaw County, MS)

Company L -- Monroe Rangers, aka the Athens Guard (raised in Monroe County, MS)

The regiment was made up largely of very young men, and the companies were organized under a proclamation of Governor Pettus calling for enlistments for three years. The companies assembled at Marion Station and were mustered into the Confederate States service in September and October. The field officers were elected November 6, 1861--Dowd, of Monroe County; McKelvaine, of Kernper; and Staples, of Choctaw.

The Twenty-fourth Regiment, Colonel Dowd, was ordered by the War Department, November 22, 1861, to report to Gen. Robert E. Lee at Savannah. General Lee, then in command of that coast department, was instructed to furnish the men with arms. As they were enlisted for the war, General Lee gave them arms intended for Georgia, which State had no troops to offer except for twelve months. In December General Lee ordered the regiment to Fernandina, which was exposed to the Federal naval expeditions. The abandonment of that coast soon followed and the Twenty-fourth was ordered, late in February, I862, to Tennessee. They were not able to start, on account of limited railroad transportation, until late in March. March 31, ordered detained at Chattanooga with command of General S. B. Maxey. April 9, Maxey ordered to Corinth with Twenty-fourth Mississippi and other regiments. Regiment brigaded with Forty-first Georgia and Ninth Texas, under Gen. S. B. Maxey, in Polk's Corps, at Corinth during the siege. Corinth was evacuated May 29-30, and the army fell back to Tupelo, under command of General Bragg.

June 15, 1862, Lieut.-Col. McKelvaine, commanding regiment, same brigade, detached, in Polk's Corps. July 8, brigade designated as Third of Cheatham's Division. Bragg moved the greater part of his troops to Chattanooga in July, whence they marched into Kentucky.

The official reports of the Kentucky campaign are unusually meager. The Twenty-fourth appears to have been then a part of the brigade of Col. T. M. Jones, in the division of Patton Anderson, Hardee's Corps. Jones' Brigade had a gallant part in the charge that swept back for a mile the Federal force in their front at Perryville, October 8, 1862, but the casualties were heavy.

The Mississippi graves at Cave Hill, Ky., are mainly of the Twenty-fourth and Forty-first Regiments. After this battle the army retreated through Cumberland Gap to East Tennessee, was transferred to Chattanooga and thence advanced toward Nashville.
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