19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment

19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
Active	1861–1865
Disbanded	April 12, 1865
Country	Confederate States
Allegiance	Mississippi
Branch	Confederate States Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Regiment
Part of	Harris' Brigade
Nickname(s)	"Nineteenth Mississippi"
Facings	Light blue
Arms	Enfield rifled muskets
Engagements	American Civil War Peninsula Campaign; Northern Virginia Campaign; Maryland Campaign; Battle of Fredericksburg; Battle of Chancellorsville; Gettysburg Campaign; Battle of the Wilderness; Battle of Spotsylvania Court House; Battle of Cold Harbor; Siege of Petersburg; Appomattox Campaign; ;
Battle honors	Williamsburg; Seven Pines;
Commanders
Commanding officers	Col. Christopher Mott †; Col. Lucius Lamar; Col. Nathaniel Harris; Col. Thomas Hardin †; Col. Richard Phipps;

Unidentified member of Company K (a.k.a. "Jake Thompson Guards"), 19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, c. 1861.

The 19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment was an infantry formation in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and was successively commanded by Colonels Christopher Mott, Lucius Lamar, Nathaniel Harris, Thomas Hardin, and Richard Phipps.^[1]^[2]

History[]

The Nineteenth Mississippi was organized on June 1, 1861, in the Mississippi Volunteers from the counties of Noxubee, Lafayette, Warren, Jefferson, Tippah, Marshall, and Itawamba.^[3] It fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Williamsburg to Cold Harbor, then served in the Petersburg trenches south of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign. This regiment lost 15 killed and 85 wounded of the 501 engaged at Williamsburg, had 58 killed, 264 wounded, and three missing at Gaines' Mill and Frayser's Farm, and had six killed and 52 wounded in the Maryland Campaign. Its casualties were six killed and 40 wounded at Chancellorsville and seven percent of the 372 at Gettysburg disabled. On April 9, 1865, it surrendered with eight officers and 129 men.^[4]

Units of the Nineteenth Mississippi included:

Crute, Joseph H. Jr. (1987). Units of the Confederate States Army (2nd ed.). Gaithersburg, Md.: Olde Soldier Books. ISBN 0-942211-53-7.
Rowland, Dunbar, ed. (1908). Military History of Mississippi: 1803-1898. Jackson, Miss.: The Reprint Company (published 2011). ISBN 978-0-87152-266-5. LCCN 78-2454.
Sifakis, Stewart (1995). Compendium of the Confederate Armies: Mississippi. New York: Facts On File, Inc. ISBN 0-8160-2292-5.

Allardice, Bruce S. (2008). Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 978-0-8262-1809-4.
Davis, Mathew Jack (1934). Reminiscence of the War for Secession and of Fort Delaware. Unpublished manuscript. Briscoe Center for American History.
Gottfried, Bradley M. (2002). Brigades of Gettysburg: The Union and Confederate Brigades at the Battle of Gettysburg. New York: Skyhorse Publishing, Inc. ISBN 978-1-61608-401-1.
Roberts, Bobby; Moneyhon, Carl (1993). Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War. Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-260-9.
"U.S. Army Campaigns: Civil War". Center of Military History. United States Army. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
Wheeler, Maj.-Gen. Joseph; Hooker, Col. Charles E. (1899). Evans, Brig.-Gen. Clement A. (ed.). Confederate Military History. XII. Atlanta: Confederate Publishing.