19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment

19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
Active	1861–1865
Country	Confederate States
Allegiance	Mississippi
Branch	Confederate States Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Regiment
Part of	Harris' Brigade
Nickname(s)	"Nineteenth Mississippi"
Facings	Light blue
Arms	Enfield rifled muskets
Campaigns	Civil War; Peninsula; Second Manassas; Sharpsburg; Fredericksburg; Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Wilderness; Spotsylvania; Cold Harbor; Petersburg; Appomattox;
Battle honors	Williamsburg; Seven Pines;
Disbanded	April 12, 1865
Commanders
Commanders	Christopher Mott †; Lucius Lamar; Nathaniel Harris; Thomas Hardin †; Richard Phipps

The 19th Mississippi Infantry Regiment (Nineteenth Mississippi) was an infantry formation in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, and was successively commanded by Colonels Christopher Mott, Lucius Lamar, Nathaniel Harris, Thomas Hardin, and Richard Phipps.^[1]^[2]

History

The Nineteenth Mississippi was organized on June 11, 1862 in the Mississippi Volunteers from the counties of Noxubee, Lafayette, Warren, Jefferson, Tippah, Marshall, and Itawamba.^[3] It fought with the Army of Northern Virginia from Williamsburg to Cold Harbor, then served in the Petersburg trenches south of the James River and the Appomattox Campaign. This regiment lost 15 killed and 85 wounded of the 501 engaged at Williamsburg, had 58 killed, 264 wounded, and three missing at Gaines' Mill and Frayser's Farm, and had six killed and 52 wounded in the Maryland Campaign. Its casualties were six killed and 40 wounded at Chancellorsville and seven percent of the 372 at Gettysburg disabled. On April 9, it surrendered with eight officers and 129 men.^[4]

Units of the Nineteenth Mississippi included: