The 19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
(With notes about Company E and Private William Meek Furr)

By
William Frazier Furr
November 1992
(Updated May 2023)
Montgomery, Alabama

Regimental History and Facts

Preface Poem--Flag of the South 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 Petition to President Davis

Brigade Assignments Brigade Staff Officers Brigade Orders Brigade Organization/Officers Regiment Staff/Company Officers Command Sequence of Events Brigade Deserters (Jul-Dec 1864) Appomattox Roster Bibliography

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Photographs

• Private Jacob S. Bogard
• Captain Chesley Shelton Coffey
• Major Robert Aaron Dean
• Private David A. Ellis
• Private William Meek Furr
• Colonel Thomas J. Hardin
• General Nathaniel H. Harris
• Private Eutimeous E.C. Kidd
• Private Charles A. Lehmann
• Colonel Christopher Haynes Mott
• Private James M. Murphy
• Adjutant Albert L. Peel
• Dr. Robert Hunter Peel
• Private Thomas J. Peel
• Colonel Richard W. Phipps
• Unidentified Corporal, Company K, Jake Thompson Guards

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Letters, Diaries, Writings, and Other Items

• 19^th Mississippi Flags
• First Bull Run 1861
• Antietam 1862
• The 19^th Mississippi’s Commander at Sharpsburg
• 19^th Mississippi Infantry Summer 1863
• Posey's Brigade Marker at Gettysburg
• Gettysburg Bliss Farm Monuments
• Almost Certain Death: Harris’ Mississippi Brigade
  during the 1864 Overland Campaign
• Siege of Petersburg 1865
• Confederate Alamo: Outnumbered Rebels at Petersburg
• Letters to the Governor of Misssissippi
• Colonel Christopher Mott
• Nathaniel Harrison Harris Papers, 1865-1899
• The Civil War Diary of Lt. George Norris
• Private Stephen R. Compton Letter
• Adjutant Albert L. Peel Diary
• Dr. Robert H. Peel Letters
• Charlie Lehmann Story
• Newspaper Articles
• Private T. P. Coleman's Intestine
• Private Peel’s Shooting Cup
• 19^th Mississippi Soldiers Buried in Arlington National Cemetery
• Southern Cross of Honor
• Ole Miss Civil War Monument
• History of the 19^th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
• ResearchOnLine -- 19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
• Wikipedia – 19^th Mississippi Infantry Regiment

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Muster Roll

A complete muster roll of the 19^th Mississippi Infantry is available

in several formats. Click here to view the options: Roster

Another version of this roll is available at Walter F. Cox, Jr.’s

Tippah County Mississippi Confederate web page.

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Biographies

(Please send me a biography of your 19th Mississippi ancestor)

Generals Featherston, Harris, and Posey

Harrison K.W. Childress

Mathew Jack Davis

William Meek Furr

Nathaniel Harrison Harris

Burd Etheldred Hurt

Hugh H. McLaughlin

Richard W. Phipps

Samuel Hall Pryor

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Other Links

• 12^th Mississippi Soldier Memoir
• The American Civil War Museum
• Mississippians in the Confederate Army
• Confederate Units That Fought in the Shenandoah Valley