24th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
24th Mississippi Infantry Regiment was a Confederate infantry unit that served from 1861 to 1865. It formed from Mississippi volunteers in fall 1861 and was sent to Georgia and North Florida to defend the coast under General Robert E. Lee. In early 1862 those coastal duties were abandoned, and the regiment returned to North Mississippi to help defend a railroad junction at Corinth.
The unit joined James Patton Anderson’s division and then fought in the Kentucky Heartland Offensive. After the Confederate defeat at Perryville, it moved to Tennessee as part of Edward C. Walthall’s Mississippi Brigade. In the winter of 1862–63 it fought at Stones River, suffering 8 killed and 108 wounded. The regiment then went to Georgia and fought at Chickamauga in September 1863, losing 10 killed and 103 wounded. During the Chattanooga Campaign it fought at Lookout Mountain in November, suffering heavy casualties. It later fought Ezra Church and Resaca during the Atlanta Campaign with the 27th Mississippi, and the two regiments together incurred casualties.
The 24th then joined Hood’s Tennessee campaign during the Franklin–Nashville Campaign, continuing to suffer losses. On April 9, 1865, the regiment was consolidated with the remnants of the 27th, 29th, and 34th Mississippi regiments into a single unit. This unit joined the Carolinas Campaign and surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina, on April 26, 1865. Only 25 men remained at surrender.
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