42d Mississippi Infantry Regiment

The Forty-second was organized on May 14, 1862, in the Mississippi Volunteers at Oxford from the counties of Carroll, DeSoto, Tishomingo, Calhoun, Yalobusha, Panola, and Itawamba.{{Cite book |last=Rowland |first=Dunbar |authorlink=Dunbar Rowland |date=1988 |orig-year=1st pub. MDAH:1908 |title=Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898: Taken From the Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, 1908 |location=Spartanburg, South Carolina |publisher=The Reprint Company |pages=121–124 |isbn=978-0-87152-266-5 |lccn=78-2454 |oclc=26822556}}{{cite book |last=Williams |first=T. P. |date=1999 |title=The Mississippi Brigade of Brig. Gen. Joseph R. Davis: A Geographical Account of Its Campaigns and a Biographical Account of Its Personalities, 1861-1865 |location=Dayton, Ohio |publisher=Morningside House |pages=41–42 |isbn=978-0-89029-335-5 |oclc=43558556}} For a time, it served on provost duty in Richmond, Virginia,{{cite news |author= |title=Grand Exodus of Three Thousand Yankees |newspaper=Richmond Dispatch |volume=XXIII |number=32 |date=August 6, 1862 |page=1}} then was assigned to Davis' Brigade, Heth's Division, Third Corps, Army of Northern Virginia.

The 42nd Regiment was engaged in fierce fighting during the Gettysburg, taking heavy casualties, with the brigade commander Col. Hugh R. Miller killed in action. In the aftermath of the Gettysburg campaign, the Regiment fought at the Battle of Bristoe Station after retreating into Virginia. It lost 46 percent of the 575 engaged at Gettysburg, had eight disabled en route from Pennsylvania, and had six killed and 25 wounded during the Bristoe Campaign.

In 1864, the 42nd took part in the Battle of the Wilderness, the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, and the Battle of Cold Harbor, before joining the defense of Petersburg, Virginia. When the Union forces broke through the Confederate lines at Petersburg in early April, 1865, the remnants of the 42nd Regiment were captured and surrendered. The Regiment surrendered one lieutenant, one chaplain, and five enlisted men on April 9, 1865.{{cite book |last=Crute |first=Joseph H. Jr. |date=1987 |title=Units of the Confederate States Army |edition= 2nd |location=Gaithersburg, Maryland |publisher=Olde Soldier Books |pages=187–188 |isbn=978-0-942211-53-5 |oclc=660162619}}

Units of the Forty-second Mississippi:

• Company A, "Carroll Fencibles"
• Company B, "Senatobia Invincibles"
• Company C, "Nelson's Avengers"
• Company D
• Company E, "Davenport Rifles"
• Company F, of Calhoun County
• Company G, "Gaston Rifles"
• Company H
• Company I, "Mississippi Reds"
• Company K

Commanding officers of the Forty-second Mississippi:

• Col. Hugh R. Miller, mortally wounded at Gettysburg, 1863.
• Col. William A. Feeney, killed at the Battle of the Wilderness, 1864.
• Col. Andrew M. Nelson, wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness, 1864.
• Lt. Col. Hillary Moseley, wounded and disabled at Gettysburg, 1863.

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• {{cite news |author= |title=From Weldon |newspaper=North Carolina Standard |volume=XIII |number=34 |date=April 24, 1863 |page=2}}
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• {{cite news |author= |title=The Pennsylvania Campaign |newspaper=Fayetteville Observer |volume=XLVII |number=2442 |date=March 21, 1864 |page=4}}
• {{cite news |author= |title=Prison Items |newspaper=Richmond Dispatch |volume=XXIII |number=104 |date=November 1, 1862 |page=2}}
• {{cite book |last1=Roberts |first1=Bobby |last2=Moneyhon |first2=Carl|date=1993 |title=A Photographic History of Mississippi in the Civil War |series=Portraits of Conflict |location=Fayetteville |publisher=University of Arkansas Press |isbn=978-1-55728-260-6 |lccn=92021637 |ol=1718833M}}
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• {{cite book |last=Wilson |first=LeGrand James |date=1973 |orig-year=1st pub. 1902 |editor-last=Silver |editor-first=James W. |editor-link=James Silver |title=The Confederate Soldier |location=Memphis, Tennessee |publisher=Memphis State University Press |isbn= 978-0-87870-016-5 |lccn=72-95936}}
• {{cite news |author= |title=Yankee Faithlessness |newspaper=Richmond Dispatch |volume=XXV |number=55 |date=September 3, 1863 |page=1}}{{Refend}}

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