Company Names

[CMWinkler]

Co. I, 4th Texas Infantry from Navarro County - Navarro Rifles

 

[M E Wolf]

This thread is doing nicely folks! Exactly the spirit of cooperation and mutual digging to record these Company names

I personally thank you all for your efforts and look forward to what is found and posted next.

This is very enjoyable and very educational!

M. E. Wolf

 

[DixieRifles]

If you are into Mississippi companies, you have it made in the shade.

I always wanted to own my own copy of Dunbar Rowlands "Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898". My sweet cousin got me a copy of the "new edition" released by H. Grady Howell, Jr---and autographed by him. H. Grady Howell has been collecting and publishing data for years. He has several books and discovered he is publishing booklets of regimental histories.

Rowland's history includes a unit history of each Mississippi Regiment that includes names of officers and names of the Companies. Each history for a typical infantry regiment can run 6 to 12 pages.
Grady Howell's new edition published in 2003, is the a reprint of Rowland's original but he added a whole new section: Military Units; Including Theaters of Service, Company Designations and Counties of Origin. This addendum adds pages 571-835. It includes an extensive index of names of every officer mentioned in the original unit histories.
And it includes names of the Companies in a section entitled: Company/Battery Index. This list gives the name and the associated unit ID and it runs from page 668-711; 42 pages. There is another list by sorted by County. Even if the company was known as "Capt. Thompson's Company", it is listed.

You gotta have that book.
Info:
ISBN 2002117732
Publisher Chickasaw Bayou Press, Madison, MS (chickasawbayoupress.com)

Here is a screen shot of the page that includes my Avatar namesake.

Also, I think the "Confederate Military History" written in the 1880's also includes a list of the early Companies raised in Mississippi. This list only contains a dozen companies or so.

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[CSA Today]

Co. I of the 19th Georgia Inf were the "Villa Rica Gold Diggers"

Co. A of the 23rd Georgia Inf were the "Bartow Yankee Killers"

Co. F of the 11th Georgia Inf were the "Mrs. Joe Brown's Boys"

Co. A of the 23rd Georgia
"Bartow Yankee Killers"
http://www.gabartow.org/mil/milCoa23reg.shtml

 

[D Serrano]

Did he get hit on july 3rd???

Also, i noticed they had the name "Greys"I'm guessing that came from the colors of their uniforms, ironically I've seen some confederate regiments with companies that say "Blues" like the 14th Virginia Company E "clarksville blues" and the "Norfolk Blues Light Artillery"

Probably pre war. Thus the blue uniform designation.