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Confederate Regiment

11th Mississippi Infantry

Organized: Corinth, MS; mustered in 5/4/1861
Disbanded/Mustered out: Hatcher's Run, VA 4/2/1865

 

Commanding Officers on the Sharpsburg Campaign:
  Col. Phillip F. Liddell
  LCol. Samuel F. Butler
  Maj. Taliaferro S. Evans

 

This Regiment's Chain of Command:
  Army - Army of Northern Virginia
  Corps - Longstreet's Command
  Division - Hood's Division
  Brigade - Law's Brigade


On the Sharpsburg Campaign

"As the rear guard of the army they marched thence to Sharpsburg and were stationed near the Dunker church, where Hood was attacked on the evening of the 16th, but repulsed the enemy. 'During the engagement the brave and efficient Col. P. F. Liddell fell, mortally wounded.' After this fight the men had their first meal for three days, except that they had a half ration of beef one day and the green corn along the road. Next morning (17th) Hood was called early into the battle. He wrote: 'I soon became engaged with an immense force of the enemy, consisting of not less than two corps of their army. It was here that I witnessed the most terrible clash of arms, by far, that has occurred during the war. The two little giant brigades of this division wrestled with this mighty force, losing hundreds of their gallant officers and men, but driving the enemy from his position and forcing him to abandon his guns on our left.' They were fighting at right angles to the general line of battle, and Law was so exposed that the division was retired to the church, which they held until relieved by McLaws."

"Lieutenant-Colonel S. F. Butler was wounded and Major T. S. Evans killed in command of the regiment. Total casualties of the regiment: 8 killed, 96 wounded. The color bearer was killed and the regimental flag, which had been presented by the government November 6, was lost".1

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Battlefield Tablets for this Unit

Tablet #303: Longstreet's Command - 14 Sep, 9 PM to 15 Sep, 12 PM
Tablet #309: Hood's Division, Longstreet's Command - 14 Sep, 9 PM to 16 Sep, 11 PM
Tablet #327: Hood's Division, Longstreet's Command - 16 Sep, 2 PM to 16 Sep, 10 PM
Tablet #329: Law's Brigade, Hood's Division - 16 Sep, 6 PM to 16 Sep, 10 PM
Tablet #330: Law's Brigade, Hood's Division - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 10 AM
Tablet #304: Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 3 PM
Tablet #310: Hood's Division, Longstreet's Command - 17 Sep, 7 AM to 17 Sep, 9 AM

We have 52 individuals in the AotW database who were on the Maryland Campaign with this unit:

 

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CPvtSpray, Jesse MWIA   09/17
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F&SLtHolliday, Thomas C.WIA   09/17
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Notes

1   This quote transcribed online by the Mississippi SCV.
Rowland, Dunbar, Military History of Mississippi 1803-1898, The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, 1908, Nashville: Press of the Brandon Printing Company, 1908, 11th Miss. Inf.  [AotW citation 219]