Unit
Confederate Regiment16th Mississippi InfantryOrganized: Corinth, MS; mustered in 6/17/1861 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Commanding Officer: Capt. A.M. Feltus | Statistics for Maryland Campaign Initial Strength: 228 Killed in Action (KIA): 27 Wounded (WIA): 117 Losses, % of Initial Strength: 63.2% Map Showing this Unit: Detail Map #7: Richardson's Division Attacks the Sunken Road Battlefield Tablets for this Unit: Tablet #386: Anderson's Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 1 PM Tablet #344: Anderson's Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 5 AM to 17 Sep, 5 PM This Regiment's Chain of Command: Army - Army of Northern Virginia Corps - Longstreet's Command Division - Anderson's Division Brigade - Featherston's Brigade | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 History of the Unit: Variious companies of militia at Corinth were organized and mustered into the Confederate States service as the 16th Mississippi Infantry June 17, 1861. Captain Carnot Posey, Wilkinson Rifles, formerly a Lieutenant in Col. Jefferson Davis' regiment, Mexican war, was elected Colonel. When the main part of Johnston's army was moved to meet McClellan before Richmond, Ewell's division, including the Sixteenth Regiment, remained on guard on the Rappahannock until ordered to join Stonewall Jackson in the Shenandoah Valley. They crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains to Luray Valley in May. Under the command of Colonel Posey, and in Trimble's brigade of Ewell's division, this regiment was the only Mississippi command that participated in the famous Valley campaign of Stonewall Jackson in May and June, 1862. They were in the Penninsular Campaign, noted for a particularly brave and effective charge at Malvern Hill. After this campaign the regiment was transferred to Featherston's brigade, and served at 2nd Manassas. The remainder of the War: The Regiment was at Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and on the Wilderness Campaign - they were particularly badly damaged at the Bloody Angle at Spottsylvania. They were in the lines at Petersburg to the Spring of 1865, when the last of them were captured or killed at Battery Gregg in April. References, Sources, and other Notes: Sources: Howell, H. Grady. For Dixie Land I'll Take My Stand; and Rowland, Dunbar. Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898 - compiled online at the Civil War in Mississippi site.
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