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Re: Company K, 7 Mississippi Cavalry

W. C. Maricle, Private, Company K, 1st Regiment Mississippi Partisan Rangers,* enlisted April 1, 1864 at Boneyard/Ripley/Panola, Miss. for 3 years, absent, sick at Mobile hospital October 30, 1864, participated in battle Harrisburg, & Oxford conduct bad but acted gallantly, description on enlistment: 18 year old Farmer, born at Tippah, Miss., resident of Jonesborough, Tippah Co., Miss., no further records

* The 7th Regiment Mississippi Cavalry was organized August 1, 1862, as the 1st Regiment Mississippi Partisan Rangers, was temporarily disbanded November 15, 1862, and re-organized March 1, 1863. The designation was changed August 1, 1864, to the 7th Regiment Mississippi Cavalry

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

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In July [1864] the regiment took part in the fighting between Pontotoc and Tupelo, including the battle of Harrisburg [July 15, 1864], and had 8 killed, 24 wounded, among the latter Lieut. D. M. Patton, Company A; Lieutenant Hadden, Company F; Lieut. W. A. A. Crook, Company G. With the brigade under Col. W. B. Wade, the Seventh skirmished with Hatch's raid to Oxford, when the town was burned August, 1864; 1 man killed in the engagement at Abbeville, August 23.
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Seventh Mississippi Cavalry
(1st Partisan Rangers)

Record of Events

Company K

Stationed at camp near Holly Springs, Mississippi, August 28-
October 31, 1862.

Stationed at Coldwater, Mississippi, February-March 1863.

Stationed at Verona, Mississippi, October 31-May 14, 1864.

Stationed at Mobile, Alabama, July 1-October 31, 1864.

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