Now for Mississippi....
Winfield Scott Featherson, holding a hat pinned up on the side with a star. Colonel of the 17th Mississippi Infantry, Featherston was later promoted to brigadier general in March 1862, commanding a Mississippi brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia and later in the Army of Tennessee.
3rd Lt. William P. Smith, Co. K "New Albany Greys," 21st Mississippi Infantry. A 35-year-old merchant from Pontotoc, Mississippi, he fought throughout the Peninsula Campaign and Seven Days before resigning due to disability in August 1862.
Cpl. Thomas P. Buford, Co. G "Lamar Rifles," 11th Mississippi Infantry. A farmer originally from Tennessee, Buford enlisted in April 1861 at 28 and served throughout the war.
Pvt. Walter Scott Buford, also in Co. G of the 11th Mississippi. He was a 19-year-old student from College Hill, MS, when he enlisted in August 1861, serving until mortally wounded at Second Manassas on August 30, 1862.
Pvt. Henry Clay Wilkins and Pvt. Davy Crockett Wilkins, Co. E "Prairie Guards," 11th Mississippi Infantry.
Both brothers were killed in the Pickett-Pettigrew-Trimble charge at Gettysburg on July 3, 1863.
Pvt. William Penn Ellis, Co. E "Calhoun Rifles," 2nd Mississippi Infantry. Enlisted May 1, 1861 at 17 years old. Captured at Gettysburg on July 1, probably in the Railroad Cut, and sent to Fort Delaware. Released after taking the Oath of Allegiance, June 6, 1865.
Pvt. Thomas P. Gooch, Co. C "Carroll Guards," 20th Mississippi Infantry. Enlisted at 19 in Carrollton, MS, June 1861. Gooch was first taken prisoner when Fort Donelson fell, exchanged, then captured again at Edwards Ferry, MS, June 10, 1863. He was paroled from Fort Delaware in June 1865.
Pvt. John D. Jones, Co. I "Burt Avengers," 39th Mississippi Infantry. Enlisted at Dry Creek, MS, on May 1, 1862. Jones served with the regiment until killed in the battle of Franklin, Nov. 30, 1864, and is buried in the McGavock Cemetery there.
Pvt. Charles C. Frierson, Co. F "Water Valley Rifles," 15th Mississippi Infantry. Enlisting in May 1861 at 23, Frierson fought through most of the regiment's battles, rising to sergeant. Appointed 1st lieutenant and ensign in September 1864, he was wounded while carrying the 15th's colors at Franklin. Later taken prisoner during the Confederate retreat and sent to Camp Chase. Exchanged in March 1865.
More on him here:
http://www.oocities.org/pentagon/quarters/1864/frierson_letters.htm
Pvt. James Monroe Callaway, Company G, "Barksdale Greys," 20th Mississippi Infantry.
Pvt. James R. Wallace, Company D, "Fort Donelson Avengers," 35th Mississippi Infantry. He was mortally wounded at Vicksburg and died June 15, 1863.
Uniform and weapons could be photographer's props in the above two images, since they are in different units but uniformed and armed exactly alike. Found both images on Pinterest; couldn't find any other personal info on them. Some of the other photos I'm posting are from the
Portraits of Conflict books.
Edit: adding the following images:
This photo was published in
Military Images Magazine, winter 2019. Description:
Half-plate ambrotype by an anonymous photographer. Chris Magewick Collection.
Four soldiers posed for this portrait about two months after they enlisted in the New Albany Grays. The company had formed in New Albany, Pontotoc County, Miss., in May 1861.
In September 1861, the company was incorporated into the 21st Mississippi Infantry as Company K. The regiment participated in many of the war’s highest profile battles, including Antietam, Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Chickamauga, The Wilderness, Spotsylvania and Cedar Creek.
The man with the long red beard is the ranking member of the group. He is Capt. Nicholas M. Blackwell, a physician educated in Philadelphia, Miss., and who practiced in New Albany with his brother. He returned to his medical practice after the war. He died in 1910 at age 72. Seated middle right is farmer James Bowman Blackwell, who suffered a wound at Fredericksburg. He recovered, and became a first lieutenant. After the war, Blackwell married, and eventually settled in North Carolina, where he lived until age 83, dying in 1927. The soldier on the far right is believed to be John Calvin Pruitt of Capt. Robert W. Flournoy’s Company of Mississippi Volunteers [actually the same company, Flournoy being the initial commander]. On Sept. 17, 1862, he died in action near the West Woods during the Battle of Sharpsburg. The man on the far left is unidentified.
https://militaryimages.atavist.com/stragglers-winter-2019
And here's another of the same group. Nicholas M. Blackwell was actually 3rd lieutenant when the photo was taken, later rising to captain. (Bartlett Historical Society,
Tennessee State Library & Archives' digital collection)