After fifteen years combined research, Scott Bell and I are still looking for letters, diaries, and photos of Itawamba Countians who served in Co. H ("the Itawamba Tigers") of the 43rd MS Infantry. If you are a descendant of these proud Southern Patriots and have any info to share, please contact me! Scott and I are members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and have sworn a solemn oath to produce a first-rate regimental history AT COST to interested purchasers. We will not profit one penny from this venture. We couldn't. We've both already spent literally thousands and thousands of dollars on various research costs! We are doing this simply to honor our ancestors! Please contact us if you are related to any of the following members of the Itawamba Tigers, even if only to help us with what the initials of these men's names mean: Company H "Itawamba Tigers," "Pound’s Sharpshooters" Mooresville, Itawamba County 20 April 1862 Captain Merriman Pound 1st Lieutenant Corydon E. Stewart 2nd Lieutenant John H. Burrow 2nd Lieutenant Patrick Moore 1st Sergeant John Clayton 1st Sergeant John C. Gillintine 1st Sergeant Alfred W. Sandlin 1st Sergeant Abner C. Tatom 1st Sergeant R.E. Taylor 2nd Sergeant James Boyd 2nd Sergeant Jacob H. Francis 2nd Sergeant William C. Francis 2nd Sergeant Isaac M. Stedham 2nd Sergeant William C. Wall 3rd Sergeant James H. Barnes 3rd Sergeant James B. Tatom 4th Sergeant John Grammer 4th Sergeant William H. Phillips 5th Sergeant William H. McKinney 1st Corporal Alfred J. Turner 2nd Corporal John K. Bell 3rd Corporal Micaja S.A. Barnes 3rd Corporal John Garner 3rd Corporal James A. Livingston 4th Corporal Jesse Ivy Hunt 4th Corporal Thomas J. Fry Privates: Augustus B. Alford Andrew J.H. Allen James M. Bailey John H. Bailey Charles S. Baldwin Thomas C. Ballard Joseph Ballew William P. Barnes James Beaver Thomas W. Bell William R. Bolin David L. Boyd David A. Brooks William Mack Brooks William W. Brooks Elisha Bryant William Bryant J. Winston Bullard John C. Burch Thomas J. Butler John J. Byons Francis M. Cantrell Moses L. Carr Stephen F. Chamblee William Chamblee William R. Chambless Eli Cheek William H. Chisholm Thomas F. Christopher Thomas Clark Royal N. Clay James S. Clayton Francis M. Colson T. Conner Henry C. Cook James Elbert Cook Mitchel Crouch William J. Curtis George F. Custer Francis M. Dickson William S. Dorsey William K. Erwin Sylvannus Estes Henry D. Evans Stephen Evans James C. Fife N. Ford Robert Forster Anthony D. Francis Edward H. Francis George N. Francis James B. Francis William Francis William H. Friday Nathan Fry Gideon George Garner Henry Garner Lemuel L. Garner Thomas Gault Thomas Henry Gillentine Thomas Gillmore James Gilmore Abner H. Green Francis Marion Gregory Henry Gregory James Hammons William R. Hampton David J. Henderson Samuel Henderson Thomas Henderson William Hester John C. Hickman Woodard Hickman Thomas Hilliard Newton A. Holman John T. Hunt Thomas J. Hunt Ephraim Johnson Marshall Johnson Robert C. Johnson James W. Jones James M. Lawrence Samuel Leathers Richard F. Lyles Alexander Mann Joshua Mann Newton F. Mann Asbury W. Martin John G. Mathews William W. May Miles M. May Reuben W. McCarty Alfred F. McNiece Francis M. McPhearson Hiram Melton John M. Melton Noah Melton James F. Moore John R. Moore Wallington Moore Benjamin F. Morris Henry C. Nickelson John W. Phillips Robert A. Phillips Daniel P. Pierce Hilliard C. Pledger William M. Pound Thomas G. Price Benjamin F. Pucket Martin Ramsey Avry Lake Rosco Samuel H. Rea A.C. Rhoger R.C. Rhyne John P. Riley Frederick H. Ringer Anderson D. Ritter Robert F. Ritter William Y. Ritter Mathew Dixon Robinson Richard Shields John L. Springer John W.R. Tally Jacob O. Tatom Wade C. Taylor George A. Trulove Allen Y. Turner Enoch L. Turner Francis M. Turner James J. Turner John L. Turner Lewis W. Turner James W. Wallace Thomas J. Watson Calvin D. Weaver William E. Weaver Williamson M. Weever Francis A. White Norman White William L. White George F. Young George W. Young Isaac G. Young James M. Young Thomas B. Young In case you were wondering just what this regiment did during the war, here is the official capsule history of the 43rd MS Infantry, taken from the "Bible of MS Confederate History," Dunbar Rowland's 1908 "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898." Note that even Rowland, who was a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and first Director of the Dept. of Archives & History -- which was charged with documenting MS's Confederate History in its charter -- could not give a complete listing of the companies that comprised the regiment! That is how undocumented this regiment is! Scott and I have come to call it the "Ghost Regiment," because so little DETAILED information has survived to tell its heroic story. If you can help us fill in the gaps in the "Bloody 43rd's" heroic narrative, either with photos, letters, diaries, or family/oral tradition, please contact me! "FORTY-THlRD REGIMENT. Colonels--William H. Moore, Richard Harrison. Lieutenant-Colonels -- Richard W. Leigh, Richard Harrison, Columbus Sykes, James O. Banks. Majors--Richard Harrison, Columbus Sykes, James O. Banks. Adjutant-- W. E. Sykcs, mortally wounded at Decatur, Ala., 1864. No data for list of companies (final statendents) A, B, C, D, F, G, H,I,K,L. Company B, of Lowrides County. Captain--J. M. Billups. Company F, of Lowndes County. Captain--J. P. Hampton. Company L, Gholson Rebels, of Monroe County, organized 30 April, 1862. Captains--Samuel J. Gholson, promoted General State troops; H. J. B. Lann. First Lieutenant--H. J. B. Lann. Second Lieutenant--James Moore. Third Lieutenant--N. Green Pennington. This was an independent company with General Little's Brigade until it was attached to the Forty-third Regiment before the siege of Vicksburg. Company I, of Lowndes County. Captain--J. O. Banks. There are no other data in this department for a list of companies. Colonel Moore, commanding his regiment at Gainesville, was ordered August 7, 1862, to Tupelo, the headquarters of Gen. Sterling Price. The regiment, with the Seventh Battalion, was assigned to Gen. M. E. Green's Brigade of Hebert's Division of the army of General Price, occupying Eastern Mississippi after the removal of Bragg's army to Chattanooga. At the battle of Corinth, October 3-5, the casualties of the regiment were 13 killed, 56 wounded.and 156 missing. General Green reported that in the attack on the 3d against the outer line of the Federal army, he could see his whole line and could not distinguish betweert the regiments which behaved the most gallantly. Lieutenant-Colonel Leigh was killed while gallantly leading his wing of the regiment. In the attack upon the inner line and the town, on the 4th, Green commanded the division and Colonel Moore the brigade. Moore's Brigade led in the attack and advancing desperately, against a destructive fire of infantry and artillery, forced their way through the works and into the heart of the town. Green reported: "Colonel Moore, I fear, was mortally wounded, while leading the Third Brigade on a charge in town. He fell near the depot and was left on the field." The regiment was in Hebert's Brigade, Maury's Division, January, 1863. One of the strongest regiments on the Vicksburg line in February, 483 effective present, Colonel Harrison commanding. In April Gcn. John C. Forney was assigned to command of division, headquarters at Snyder's Bluff, on the Yazoo. Hebert's Brigade was stationed at Snyder's Bluff, and from Haynes' Bluff to the Mississippi, including Chickasaw Bluffs, when Grant's army landed below Vicksburg, and remained there until Pemberton returned across the Big Black from the battle of Baker's Creek, when, on the night of May I7-18, Hebert's men marched to Vicksburg and thence to take their place in the trenches east of the town, the right of the brigade across the Jackson road and the left in the main redan on the Graveyard road. They were just in time to meet the advance of the Union troops on the latter road, and on that road the artillery fire began that evening, May 18, which was continued every day with increasing severity until July 4. A heavy assault was made on May 22, and repulsed. On June 25, when the first mine was exploded under the works held by General Forney, "six men of the Forty-third Mississippi Regiment, who were in a shaft countermining at the time of the explosion, were buried and lost." The Forty-third was in the trenches next to this redan. The attempt of the enemy to occupy the breach was defeated. By this time the Federal works were advanced so close and elevated that the men of this brigade were obliged to work incessantly night and day repairing the parapets and constructing new lines. They were also exposed to the fire of a mortar on the Jackson road. July 1 another mine explosion destroyed the main redan near the Jackson road, but no attempt was made to storm. July 4th, in accordance with the terms of surrender, the brigade stacked arms in front of their line, and marched to bivouac in the rear of the works, where they were paroled. The brigade had 2,186 paroled: 219 had been killed, 455 wounded. The casualties of the Forty-third, Col. Richard Harrison commanding, were 25 killed, including Lieut. M. D. L. Hodo, and 33 wounded. Pound's Battalion of Sharpshooters, Capt. M. Pound commanding, formed from the Forty-third Regiment, accompanied Ector's Brigade of Walker's Division to Georgia after the fall of Vicksburg, and participated in the battle of Chickamauga, fighting in the same part of the field September 19, 1863, on which Walthall's Brigade was engaged. After this battle the brigade was ordered back to Mississippi. In February, 1864, the Forty-third was being equipped for the field at Columbus, and one company was attached to Colonel Holland's command. The regiment, except the men not exchanged, was ordered to Meridian, whence Polk fell back to Demopolis February 11. But Lieutenant-Colonel Sykes' detachment was on duty at Columbus later in the month and in the field along the Tombigbee River during the raid of Sooy Smith. February 29, from Demopolis, order that Colonel Harrison report "with his regiment as infantry" for assignment to Featherston's Brigade. May 5, 1864, ordered to report to General Loring for brigade assignment. The regiment, Col. Richard Harrison commanding, arrived at Resaca, Ga., May 11, as a part of the brigade of Gem John Adsins (formerly Tilghman's), Loring's Division, Army of the Mississippi, Lieut.-Gen. Leonidas Polk commanding. After Polk was killed at Kenesaw Mountain, the army became known as A. P. Stewart's Corps, Army of Tennessee. Adams' Brigade participated in the defence of Resaca and the New Hope Church and Kenesaw Mountain lines, was in the battle of July 28 near Atlanta, and served in the trenches about that city until the evacuation September 1. A pleasant incident of the campaign was the presentation of a flag May 29, 1864, from Miss Helen Cozart, of Columbus, to "Colonel Harrison and his gallant Forty-third as a slight token of the appreciation felt for the unflinching discharge of their duty in their country's defense." In the October, 1864, campaign on the Chattanooga and Atlanta Railroad, Loring's Division, including Adams' Brigade, captnred the garrison at Acworth, October 4, marched as far north as Dalton, thence through the mountains to Gadsden, made a demonstration against Decatur, and moved to Tuscumbia. Crossing the Tennessee River, November 20, they marched to Columbia and participated in the march to Spring Hill. November 30 they followed closely the Federal retreat to Franklin, and in the evening joined in the assault upon the works. General Adams was killed upon the parapet of the inner line while leading the brigade, which had 44 killed, 271 wounded, 22 missing. After reaching the line in front of Nashville, the brigade of six regiments had an effective strength of a little over 1,000. Gen. Loring's Division was distinguished for steadiness during the disastrous battle of Nashville, December 15-16. The remnant of the Army of the Mississippi was the last to recross the Tennessee River, December 28, and early in January headquarters were established at Tupelo. About the first of February, Lorimg's Division began the movement to reinforce General Johnston in the Carolinas. They were ordered forward from Augusta, Ga., to Newberry, S. C., February 25. In the Carolina campaign under General Johnston against General Sherman they participated in the battle of Kinston, March 10, and the battle of Bentonville, March 19-21, on the 19th making a gallant and successful charge. Organization of army of General Johnston, near Smithfield, N. C., March 31, 1865, shows Major-General Walthall in command of Stewart's Corps, Adams' Brigade commanded by Col. Richard Harrison, the Forty-third Regiment by Mai. James O. Banks. April 9 the Fifth, Fourteenth and Forty-third Mississippi were consolidated as the Fourteenth, Col. Robert J. Lawrence commanding. Hostilities were suspended April 18, the army surrendered April 26 near Durhanx Station, and paroled at Greensboro." We have a small website up and running for the 43rd at www.43rdmississippi.homestead.com/index.html. If you are interested in capsule histories of the 43rd and other MS units, please go to the MS Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, homepage at www.mississippiscv.org (click on the "Mississippi History" tab). For membership in the SCV, go to www.scv.org or call 1-800-MYSOUTH. For information in the United Daughters of the Confederacy, go to www.hqudc.org. Thank you, Itawamba County, for any assistance you can give us in uncovering and preserving the noble story of these Southern Patriots. Help us celebrate their "Heritage of Honor"! I do this work in honor of Capt. Henry James Gully, captain of the Kemper Blues (Co. K), which went out from Kemper in 1861, and 1st Lt. (acting captain for most of the war) of the Kemper Fencibles, which served until the very end of hostilities! Henry was my GGG-grandfather. Deo Vindice! ("God vindicates!"). -- Jim Huffman, Co-Historian, 43rd MS Infantry, CSA. (If you need to snail mail me, I'm at 1230 Stemwood Drive, Picayune, MS 39466.)

One of the guys on this list seems to be my great-grandfather's brother: Robert Christopher Johnson. You are doing a great job, and this is a great service to people researching their families. Thanks!!! I have found the two older brothers that were killed in the war in the list of Co. K Yankee Hunters, that is posted on Bob Franks Itawamba Co. website. I cannot find my great-grandfather, John Franklin Thomas Johnson, anywhere. He joined at age 16. When he applied for a Civil War Pension in 1929 in Texas, the government kept writing back and saying that they could not find him listed anyplace. He has to apply with his name listed the same way as when he enlisted. He was 82 years old, and the judge wrote back for him that he does not remember how he signed his name when he enlisted. They did finally approve the application for pension. Can you tell from the following info he put on the application which company he would have been in? "I was honorably discharged about March 1865 by Captain Kelsen on account of my bad health." Post Office address at time of enlistment: "Fulton, Miss" Date of Enlistment: "August 1863, Discharged March 1865" What was the letter of your company, number of battalion, regiment or battery? "Do not know. I was under Liet. Lindsey and Wright; Sergeant Caldwell" What branch did you enlist in? "Cavalry" Thanks a lot, Deborah (Johnson) Maston ----- Original Message ----- From: Huffman <huffman@ametro.net> To: <MSITAWAM-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 1:16 PM Subject: [MSITAWAM-L] Itawamba Tigers/43rd MS Infantry > After fifteen years combined research, Scott Bell and I are still looking > for letters, diaries, and photos of Itawamba Countians who served in Co. H > ("the Itawamba Tigers") of the 43rd MS Infantry. > > If you are a descendant of these proud Southern Patriots and have any info > to share, please contact me! > > Scott and I are members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and have sworn a > solemn oath to produce a first-rate regimental history AT COST to interested > purchasers. We will not profit one penny from this venture. We couldn't. > We've both already spent literally thousands and thousands of dollars on > various research costs! We are doing this simply to honor our ancestors! > > Please contact us if you are related to any of the following members of the > Itawamba Tigers, even if only to help us with what the initials of these > men's names mean: > > > > Company H > > "Itawamba Tigers," "Pound's Sharpshooters" > > Mooresville, Itawamba County > > 20 April 1862 > > Captain Merriman Pound > > 1st Lieutenant Corydon E. Stewart > > 2nd Lieutenant John H. Burrow > > 2nd Lieutenant Patrick Moore > > 1st Sergeant John Clayton > > 1st Sergeant John C. Gillintine > > 1st Sergeant Alfred W. Sandlin > > 1st Sergeant Abner C. Tatom > > 1st Sergeant R.E. Taylor > > 2nd Sergeant James Boyd > > 2nd Sergeant Jacob H. Francis > > 2nd Sergeant William C. Francis > > 2nd Sergeant Isaac M. Stedham > > 2nd Sergeant William C. Wall > > 3rd Sergeant James H. Barnes > > 3rd Sergeant James B. Tatom > > 4th Sergeant John Grammer > > 4th Sergeant William H. Phillips > > 5th Sergeant William H. McKinney > > 1st Corporal Alfred J. Turner > > 2nd Corporal John K. Bell > > 3rd Corporal Micaja S.A. Barnes > > 3rd Corporal John Garner > > 3rd Corporal James A. Livingston > > 4th Corporal Jesse Ivy Hunt > > 4th Corporal Thomas J. Fry > > Privates: > > Augustus B. Alford > > Andrew J.H. Allen > > James M. Bailey > > John H. Bailey > > Charles S. Baldwin > > Thomas C. Ballard > > Joseph Ballew > > William P. Barnes > > James Beaver > > Thomas W. Bell > > William R. Bolin > > David L. Boyd > > David A. Brooks > > William Mack Brooks > > William W. Brooks > > Elisha Bryant > > William Bryant > > J. Winston Bullard > > John C. Burch > > Thomas J. Butler > > John J. Byons > > Francis M. Cantrell > > Moses L. Carr > > Stephen F. Chamblee > > William Chamblee > > William R. Chambless > > Eli Cheek > > William H. Chisholm > > Thomas F. Christopher > > Thomas Clark > > Royal N. Clay > > James S. Clayton > > Francis M. Colson > > T. Conner > > Henry C. Cook > > James Elbert Cook > > Mitchel Crouch > > William J. Curtis > > George F. Custer > > Francis M. Dickson > > William S. Dorsey > > William K. Erwin > > Sylvannus Estes > > Henry D. Evans > > Stephen Evans > > James C. Fife > > N. Ford > > Robert Forster > > Anthony D. Francis > > Edward H. Francis > > George N. Francis > > James B. Francis > > William Francis > > William H. Friday > > Nathan Fry > > Gideon George Garner > > Henry Garner > > Lemuel L. Garner > > Thomas Gault > > Thomas Henry Gillentine > > Thomas Gillmore > > James Gilmore > > Abner H. Green > > Francis Marion Gregory > > Henry Gregory > > James Hammons > > William R. Hampton > > David J. Henderson > > Samuel Henderson > > Thomas Henderson > > William Hester > > John C. Hickman > > Woodard Hickman > > Thomas Hilliard > > Newton A. Holman > > John T. Hunt > > Thomas J. Hunt > > Ephraim Johnson > > Marshall Johnson > > Robert C. Johnson > > James W. Jones > > James M. Lawrence > > Samuel Leathers > > Richard F. Lyles > > Alexander Mann > > Joshua Mann > > Newton F. Mann > > Asbury W. Martin > > John G. Mathews > > William W. May > > Miles M. May > > Reuben W. McCarty > > Alfred F. McNiece > > Francis M. McPhearson > > Hiram Melton > > John M. Melton > > Noah Melton > > James F. Moore > > John R. Moore > > Wallington Moore > > Benjamin F. Morris > > Henry C. Nickelson > > John W. Phillips > > Robert A. Phillips > > Daniel P. Pierce > > Hilliard C. Pledger > > William M. Pound > > Thomas G. Price > > Benjamin F. Pucket > > Martin Ramsey > > Avry Lake Rosco > > Samuel H. Rea > > A.C. Rhoger > > R.C. Rhyne > > John P. Riley > > Frederick H. Ringer > > Anderson D. Ritter > > Robert F. Ritter > > William Y. Ritter > > Mathew Dixon Robinson > > Richard Shields > > John L. Springer > > John W.R. Tally > > Jacob O. Tatom > > Wade C. Taylor > > George A. Trulove > > Allen Y. Turner > > Enoch L. Turner > > Francis M. Turner > > James J. Turner > > John L. Turner > > Lewis W. Turner > > James W. Wallace > > Thomas J. Watson > > Calvin D. Weaver > > William E. Weaver > > Williamson M. Weever > > Francis A. White > > Norman White > > William L. White > > George F. Young > > George W. Young > > Isaac G. Young > > James M. Young > > Thomas B. Young > > > In case you were wondering just what this regiment did during the war, here > is the official capsule history of the 43rd MS Infantry, taken from the > "Bible of MS Confederate History," Dunbar Rowland's 1908 "Military History > of Mississippi, 1803-1898." Note that even Rowland, who was a member of the > Sons of Confederate Veterans and first Director of the Dept. of Archives & > History -- which was charged with documenting MS's Confederate History in > its charter -- could not give a complete listing of the companies that > comprised the regiment! That is how undocumented this regiment is! Scott > and I have come to call it the "Ghost Regiment," because so little DETAILED > information has survived to tell its heroic story. If you can help us fill > in the gaps in the "Bloody 43rd's" heroic narrative, either with photos, > letters, diaries, or family/oral tradition, please contact me! > > > "FORTY-THlRD REGIMENT. > > Colonels--William H. Moore, Richard Harrison. > Lieutenant-Colonels -- Richard W. Leigh, Richard Harrison, Columbus Sykes, > James O. > Banks. > Majors--Richard Harrison, Columbus Sykes, James O. Banks. > Adjutant-- W. E. Sykcs, mortally wounded at Decatur, Ala., 1864. > > No data for list of companies (final statendents) A, B, C, D, F, G, H,I,K,L. > > Company B, of Lowrides County. > Captain--J. M. Billups. > > Company F, of Lowndes County. > Captain--J. P. Hampton. > > Company L, Gholson Rebels, of Monroe County, organized 30 April, 1862. > Captains--Samuel J. Gholson, promoted General State troops; H. J. B. Lann. > First Lieutenant--H. J. B. Lann. > Second Lieutenant--James Moore. > Third Lieutenant--N. Green Pennington. > This was an independent company with General Little's Brigade until it was > attached to > the Forty-third Regiment before the siege of Vicksburg. > > Company I, of Lowndes County. > Captain--J. O. Banks. > > There are no other data in this department for a list of companies. > > Colonel Moore, commanding his regiment at Gainesville, was ordered > August 7, 1862, > to Tupelo, the headquarters of Gen. Sterling Price. The regiment, with the > Seventh > Battalion, was assigned to Gen. M. E. Green's Brigade of Hebert's Division > of the army of > General Price, occupying Eastern Mississippi after the removal of Bragg's > army to > Chattanooga. At the battle of Corinth, October 3-5, the casualties of the > regiment were 13 > killed, 56 wounded.and 156 missing. General Green reported that in the > attack on the 3d > against the outer line of the Federal army, he could see his whole line and > could not > distinguish betweert the regiments which behaved the most gallantly. > Lieutenant-Colonel > Leigh was killed while gallantly leading his wing of the regiment. In the > attack upon the > inner line and the town, on the 4th, Green commanded the division and > Colonel Moore the > brigade. Moore's Brigade led in the attack and advancing desperately, > against a destructive > fire of infantry and artillery, forced their way through the works and into > the heart of the > > town. Green reported: "Colonel Moore, I fear, was mortally wounded, while > leading the > Third Brigade on a charge in town. He fell near the depot and was left on > the field." > The regiment was in Hebert's Brigade, Maury's Division, January, 1863. > One of the > strongest regiments on the Vicksburg line in February, 483 effective > present, Colonel > Harrison commanding. In April Gcn. John C. Forney was assigned to command of > division, headquarters at Snyder's Bluff, on the Yazoo. > Hebert's Brigade was stationed at Snyder's Bluff, and from Haynes' > Bluff to the > Mississippi, including Chickasaw Bluffs, when Grant's army landed below > Vicksburg, and > remained there until Pemberton returned across the Big Black from the battle > of Baker's > Creek, when, on the night of May I7-18, Hebert's men marched to Vicksburg > and thence > to take their place in the trenches east of the town, the right of the > brigade across > the Jackson road and the left in the main redan on the Graveyard road. They > were just in > time to meet the advance of the Union troops on the latter road, and on that > road the > artillery fire began that evening, May 18, which was continued every day > with increasing > severity until July 4. A heavy assault was made on May 22, and repulsed. On > June 25, > when the first mine was exploded under the works held by General Forney, > "six men of the > Forty-third Mississippi Regiment, who were in a shaft countermining at the > time of the > explosion, were buried and lost." The Forty-third was in the trenches next > to this redan. > The attempt of the enemy to occupy the breach was defeated. By this time the > Federal > works were advanced so close and elevated that the men of this brigade were > obliged to > work incessantly night and day repairing the parapets and constructing new > lines. They > were also exposed to the fire of a mortar on the Jackson road. July 1 > another mine > explosion destroyed the main redan near the Jackson road, but no attempt was > made to > storm. July 4th, in accordance with the terms of surrender, the brigade > stacked arms in > front of their line, and marched to bivouac in the rear of the works, where > they were > paroled. The brigade had 2,186 paroled: 219 had been killed, 455 wounded. > The casualties > of the Forty-third, Col. Richard Harrison commanding, were 25 killed, > including Lieut. M. > D. L. Hodo, and 33 wounded. > Pound's Battalion of Sharpshooters, Capt. M. Pound commanding, formed > from the > Forty-third Regiment, accompanied Ector's Brigade of Walker's Division to > Georgia after > the fall of Vicksburg, and participated in the battle of Chickamauga, > fighting in the same > part of the field September 19, 1863, on which Walthall's Brigade was > engaged. After this > battle the brigade was ordered back to Mississippi. > In February, 1864, the Forty-third was being equipped for the field at > Columbus, and > one company was attached to Colonel Holland's command. The regiment, except > the men > not exchanged, was ordered to Meridian, whence Polk fell back to Demopolis > February > 11. But Lieutenant-Colonel Sykes' detachment was on duty at Columbus later > in the > month and in the field along the Tombigbee River during the raid of Sooy > Smith. > February 29, from Demopolis, order that Colonel Harrison report "with > his regiment as > infantry" for assignment to Featherston's Brigade. May 5, 1864, ordered to > report to > General Loring for brigade assignment. > > The regiment, Col. Richard Harrison commanding, arrived at Resaca, Ga., > May 11, as a > part of the brigade of Gem John Adsins (formerly Tilghman's), Loring's > Division, Army of > the Mississippi, Lieut.-Gen. Leonidas Polk commanding. After Polk was killed > at Kenesaw > Mountain, the army became known as A. P. Stewart's Corps, Army of Tennessee. > Adams' > Brigade participated in the defence of Resaca and the New Hope Church and > Kenesaw > Mountain lines, was in the battle of July 28 near Atlanta, and served in the > trenches about > that city until the evacuation September 1. > A pleasant incident of the campaign was the presentation of a flag May > 29, 1864, from > Miss Helen Cozart, of Columbus, to "Colonel Harrison and his gallant > Forty-third as a > slight token of the appreciation felt for the unflinching discharge of their > duty in their > country's defense." > In the October, 1864, campaign on the Chattanooga and Atlanta Railroad, > Loring's > Division, including Adams' Brigade, captnred the garrison at Acworth, > October 4, > marched as far north as Dalton, thence through the mountains to Gadsden, > made a > demonstration against Decatur, and moved to Tuscumbia. > Crossing the Tennessee River, November 20, they marched to Columbia and > participated in the march to Spring Hill. November 30 they followed closely > the Federal > retreat to Franklin, and in the evening joined in the assault upon the > works. General > Adams was killed upon the parapet of the inner line while leading the > brigade, which had > 44 killed, 271 wounded, 22 missing. After reaching the line in front of > Nashville, the > brigade of six regiments had an effective strength of a little over 1,000. > Gen. Loring's > Division was distinguished for steadiness during the disastrous battle of > Nashville, > December 15-16. The remnant of the Army of the Mississippi was the last to > recross the > Tennessee River, December 28, and early in January headquarters were > established at > Tupelo. > About the first of February, Lorimg's Division began the movement to > reinforce > General Johnston in the Carolinas. They were ordered forward from Augusta, > Ga., to > Newberry, S. C., February 25. In the Carolina campaign under General > Johnston against > General Sherman they participated in the battle of Kinston, March 10, and > the battle of > Bentonville, March 19-21, on the 19th making a gallant and successful > charge. > Organization of army of General Johnston, near Smithfield, N. C., March 31, > 1865, shows > Major-General Walthall in command of Stewart's Corps, Adams' Brigade > commanded by > Col. Richard Harrison, the Forty-third Regiment by Mai. James O. Banks. > April 9 the > Fifth, Fourteenth and Forty-third Mississippi were consolidated as the > Fourteenth, Col. > Robert J. Lawrence commanding. Hostilities were suspended April 18, the army > surrendered April 26 near Durhanx Station, and paroled at Greensboro." > > > > We have a small website up and running for the 43rd at > www.43rdmississippi.homestead.com/index.html. > > If you are interested in capsule histories of the 43rd and other MS units, > please go to the MS Division, Sons of Confederate Veterans, homepage at > www.mississippiscv.org (click on the "Mississippi History" tab). > > For membership in the SCV, go to www.scv.org or call 1-800-MYSOUTH. > > For information in the United Daughters of the Confederacy, go to > www.hqudc.org. > > Thank you, Itawamba County, for any assistance you can give us in uncovering > and preserving the noble story of these Southern Patriots. Help us > celebrate their "Heritage of Honor"! I do this work in honor of Capt. Henry > James Gully, captain of the Kemper Blues (Co. K), which went out from Kemper in > 1861, and 1st Lt. (acting captain for most of the war) of the Kemper > Fencibles, which served until the very end of hostilities! Henry was my > GGG-grandfather. Deo Vindice! ("God vindicates!"). -- Jim Huffman, > Co-Historian, 43rd MS Infantry, CSA. (If you need to snail mail me, I'm at > 1230 Stemwood Drive, Picayune, MS 39466.) > > > >