Mississippi

On November 30, 1864, Mississippi’s sons and fathers, young and old, brave and bold, went again into battle at Franklin, charging across its bloody plain as part of eighteen brigades that moved at four o’clock against Union forces with flags flying. Mississippi units engaged there included, in Cheatham’s Corps, Cleburne’s Division, Lowrey’s Brigade with the 5th, 8th, and 32nd Infantry Regiments and 3rd Mississippi Infantry Battalion; in Lee’s Corps, Johnson’s Division, Sharp’s Brigade with the 7th, 9th, 10th, 41st, and 44th Infantry Regiments and 9th Battalion Sharpshooters, and Brantley’s Brigade with the 24th, 27th, 29th, 20th and 34th Infantry Regiments; in Stewart’s Corps, Loring’s Division, Featherstone’s Brigade with the 1st, 3rd, 22nd, 31st, 33rd, and 40th Infantry Regiments and 1st Mississippi Battalion, Adam’s Brigade with the 6th, 14th, 15th, 20th, 23rd, and 43rd Infantry Regiments, French’s Division, Sears Brigade with the 4th, 35th, 36th, 30th, and 46th Infantry Regiments and 7th Mississippi Battalion, and Walthall’s Division, Cantley’s Brigade with the 37th Infantry Regiments; and in Forrest’s Cavalry Corps, Jackson’s Division, Armstrong’s Brigade with Ballentine’s Mississippi Regiments. No Mississippi artillery units were engaged at Franklin.

Franklin, Tennessee · United States