1st Infantry Regiment, 682 strong, completed its organization at Corinth Mississippi, during the spring of 1861. The men were raised in the counties of Marshall, Itawamba, De Soto, Panola, Lafayette, Tishomingo, and Smith. It was ordered to Kentucky then to Tennessee where on February 16, 1862, it was captured at Fort Donelson. During this fight the unit lost 16 killed and 61 wounded of the 331 engaged. Exchanged and attached to Beall's Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Lousiana, it was again captured at Port Hudson. After the exchange the regiment served in General Featherston's Brigade and fought with the Army of Tennessee from Resaca to Bentonville. In December 1864, only 65 officers and men were present for duty, and very few surrendered in April, 1865. The field officers were Colonels Thomas H. Johnston and John M. Simonton, Lieutenant Colonel A. S. Hamilton, and Major M. S. Alcorn. First Mississippi Cavalry Battalion The following information is taken directly from Units of the Confederate States Army by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. Published by Derwent Books; Midlothian, Virginia. (c)1987. 1st Cavalry Battalion was formed during the summer of 1861 and served in the Western Department and the Army of the Mississippi. It took an active part in the fight at Belmont, then on April 2, 1862 merged into Lindsay's Mississippi Cavalry Regiment. Lieutenant Colonel John H. Miller and Major D. C. Herndon were in command. 1st Cavalry Regiment was assembled during the spring of 1862. Its companies were recruited in the counties of Carroll, De Soto, Tishomingo, Itawamba, Quitman, Noxubee, Bolivar, and Pontotoc. The unit served in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, then was assigned to W. H. Jackson's, Ross's, Cosby's, and F. C. Armstrong's Brigade, Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Lousiana. It contained 22 officers and 220 men in July, 1862 and confronted the Federals in various conflicts in Mississippi. Later the regiment was involved in the operations in North Alabama and Middle Tennessee wehre it's casualties were 2 killed and 27 wounded. It went on to fight in North Georgia and Alabama but only a few surrendered in May, 1865. The field officers were Colonel R. A. Pinson, Lieutenant Colonel F. A. Montgomery, and Majors John S. Simmons and E. G. Wheeler. Correspondence Records Records Group 109 also includes correspondence records of the Confederate War Department. These have been reproduced as Letters Received by the Confederate Secretary of War, 1861-1865 (microfilm M437, 151 rolls); Letters Received by the Confederate Adjutant and Inspector General, 1861-1865 (microfilm M474, 164 rolls); and Letters Received by the Confederate Quartermaster General, 1861-1865 (microfilm M469, 14 rolls). Alphabetical card indexes to names of correspondents and persons mentioned in the letters are available as Index to Letters Received by the Confederate Secretary of War, 1861-1865 (microfilm M409, 34 rolls) and Index to Letters Received by the Confederate Adjutant and Inspector General and the Confederate Quartermaster General, 1861-1865 (microfilm M410, 41 rolls). Information about the confirmation of appointments of Confederate officers is given in the Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865 (58th Cong., 2d session, Senate Document 234, serials 4610-4616). A general index is in the last volume. Fort Donelson, Tennessee (siege and capture Feb. 12-16, 1862) 1st, 4th, 14th, 20th, 23rd, and 26th Inf. Regts. 1st Miss. Cav. Regt. Deupree, J. G. "Reminiscences of Service with the First Mississippi Cavalry," Publications of Mississippi Historical Society, vol. 7, pp. 85-100, 1903? [Offprint in Univ. Miss. library, E605.D48.] Montgomery, Frank A. Reminiscences of a Mississippian in Peace and War. Cincinnati: Robert Clarke Co., 1901, 305 pp. [Copy in Univ. Miss. library, E605.M78.]