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Capt. L. R. Page. Wilkinson Rifles, Capt. C. Posey. Jasper Grays, Capt. J. J. Shannon. Meridian Invincibles, Capt. W. F. Crumpton. Claiborne Rangers, Capt. J. Taylor Moore. Clayton Guards, Captain Vaughn. Rankin Rough and Readies, Capt. E. J. Runnels. Panola Vindicators, Capt. Geo. P. Foote. Buena Vista Rifles, Capt. T. L. Rogers. In the month of August, 1861, the organization of the eight regiments ordered to be raised by the ordinance of the convention, adopted January 23d, was completed. These were put under command of Reuben Davis as major-general, and Brigadier-Generals Alcorn, Absalom M. West, John M. O'Farrell and Charles G. Dahlgren. As soon as the new brigades were ordered into camp there arose a storm of indignation at the supposed useless extravagance of maintaining such a military body. This was intensified after the victory at Manassas, which was taken by many as the end of the struggle against coercion. It appearing to the legislature that
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 3: (search)
i, and the State honored the requisition by sending 20 companies, which reached their destination early in April, 1861. These were the first soldiers sent out of the State by Mississippi to serve in the cause of the Confederate States. They were organized at Pensacola in April, 1861, in two regiments, the Ninth and Tenth Mississippi infantry, and were so numbered, presumably because the organization of the eight regiments within the State provided for by the ordinance of the convention, January 23d, had not then been completed and was not completed till the month of August following. Their numbering, therefore, would have to begin where that of the eight regiments would leave off, otherwise confusion would result. Their organization was as follows: Ninth regiment, Jas. R. Chalmers, colonel; James L. Autry, lieutenant-colonel; A. R. Bowdrie, major; Eugene Whitfield, adjutant. Company A, Irrepressibles, De Soto county, Capt. J. R. Chalmers, T. W. White. Company B, Home Guards,