Mississippi: 11th Cavalry Regiment
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Unit History
Organized by the increase of Perrin's Cavalry Battalion, State Troops to a regiment in the spring of 1864.
Included in the surrendered of Gen. Joseph E. Johnston at Durham Station, North Carolina on April 26, 1865.
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Companies comprising Perrin's Battalion:
Company A -- Perrin’s Company (Kemper and Neshoba Counties)
Company B -- Choctaw Rangers (Choctaw County)
Company C -- Metts’ Company (Noxubee and Winston Counties)
Company D -- Perkins’ Company (Leake, Noxubee, and Winston Counties)
Company E -- Rayburn’s Company (Newton County)
Company F -- Montgomery’s Company (Monroe and Oktibbeha Counties)
Company G -- Thomas’ Company (Noxubee County and in Alabama)
Company H -- Chickasaw Rangers (Chickasaw County)
Company I -- Bookter’s Company (Oktibbeha County)
HISTORY OF PERRIN’S BATTALION MS CAVALRY (STATE TROOPS, AKA MINUTE MEN):
Lieutenant-Colonel -- R. O. Perrin
Major -- A. C. Reid
The battalion was composed of the companies of Captains Perrin, J. R. Allen, M. A. Metts, G. M. Mosley, Montgomery, J. H. Rayburn, Thomas B. Foard, C. M. Thomas and W. L. Walker.
The Adjutant-General's list of July 7, 1863, shows the following State Cavalry on duty at Jackson: Perrin's company, total 45; J. R. Allen's company, total 57; Lieut. G. M. Moseley's company, total 28; Mett's company, total 42. This was just before Sherman's siege.
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HISTORY of the 11th Mississippi Cavalry:
Colonel -- Robert O. Perrin
Lieutenant-Colonel -- Henry L. Muldrow
Major -- Abner C. Reid
There is no list of the companies in this department.
The regiment is first mentioned in the dispatches of Gen. S. D. Lee, from Jackson. Miss., on February 1, 1864, that he had taken 500 rifles intended for the unarmed men of Jackson and Ferguson and given them to Colonel Perrin, whose regiment had come in finely. He asked for 300 more to complete the arming of Perrin's men.
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February 13, the regiment was reported at the Big Mountain, with Ferguson's Brigade, in front of Loring's Infantry, confronting Sherman's Meridian expedition.
When General Lee moved from the vicinity of Meridian, on February 18, with four brigades toward Starkville, to support Lt. Gen. Nathan B. Forrest, Colonel Perrin's Regiment was left to cover Demopolis and observe Sherman’s movements. Perrin, at Lauderdale, reported the departure of Sherman from the Mobile & Ohio Railroad on February 22.
Capt. Henry L. Muldrow commanded a battalion with Gen. Wirt Adams' Brigade, through the Meridian campaign, and was particularly distinguished in the battle of Champion's Hill on February 4-5, and in the attacks on Sherman's line of march from Canton to the Big Black, at the close of the month. But he appears then to have been in command of a squadron of the Adams Regiment.
On April 2, 1864, Ferguson's Brigade was ordered by General Lee to Macon, Miss. [Ga.?] Throughout the Atlanta Campaign the regiment, under the command of Colonel Perrin, was a part of Ferguson's Brigade, of Jackson's Cavalry, the brigade also including the 9th and 12th Mississippi.
The casualties of the regiment up to June 9 were: Killed, 1; wounded, 9, including Capt. J. L. Hargrove, severely; missing, 4. June 9 to June 24: killed, 1; wounded, 8; missing, 3. The regiment is mentioned as on the picket line near Kenesaw Mountain, June 20.
In November and December, the regiment fought with Gen. Joseph Wheeler during Sherman's march to Savannah and siege of that city.
On January 31, 1865, Lieut.-Col. Henry L. Muldrow commanding, in Ferguson's Brigade, Iverson's Division, Wheeler's Cavalry.
Order of War Department, March 25, 1865: "The organization heretofore known as Perrin's Regiment will be designated as the Eleventh Regiment, Mississippi Cavalry."
Ferguson's Cavalry was part of the cavalry escort of President Davis in Georgia, April, 1865.
Some dismounted men of the brigade were sent to Mobile with Steede's Battalion.
Federal report, flag captured at Selma, Ala., on April 2, 1865, said by bearer to be flag of 11th Mississippi.
Field and Staff
- Commander: Robert O. Perrin (Colonel)
- Lieutenant Colonel: Henry L. Muldrow
- Major: Absalom Reed
Assignments
- May-July 1864: Ferguson's Brigade, Jackson's Cavalry Division, Army of Mississippi
- July-September 1864: Ferguson's Brigade, Jackson's Cavalry Division, Army of Tennessee
- October 1864-February 1865: Ferguson's Brigade, Iverson's Division, Wheeler's Cavalry Corps, Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
- February-April 1865: Ferguson's Brigade, Iverson's Cavalry Division, District of Georgia and South Carolina, Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida
Companies & Counties of Origin
| Company | Counties Formed From | Also Known As |
| A | Kemper and Neshoba Counties | Perrin’s Company |
| B | Noxubee County | Thomas' Company |
| C | Attala County | Buford’s Company |
| D | Noxubee and Winston Counties | Metts' Company |
| E | Oktibbeha County | Gholson Guards |
| F | Kemper County | Steele’s Company |
| G | Lawrence County | Hargrove’s Company |
| H | Chickasaw County | Chickasaw Rangers |
| I | Choctaw County | Mississippi Cleansers (aka Barksdale Avengers) |
| K | Tallahatchie County | Martin’s Company |
| no designation | Tallahatchie County | Tallahatchie Guards Independent Cavalry |
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Battles, Skirmishes and Engagements
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