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Mississippi Civil War Projects

This site is a member of the American History and Genealogy Project - Mississippi Civil War AHGP Project. If you have records to contribute to this project, please email ahgpmscivilwar@gmail.com OR you may submit your records to the USGenWeb MS Archives Project through the FORM at the link above, "Submit Mississippi Records".

USGenWeb MS Civil War Archives A search of the USGenWeb MS Archives will yield over 148 files with the word "Civil War" in the file, however, a search of the "Military" directory does not include many other entries for the term, "Civil War".

MS AHGP Links This links are offsite pertaining to Mississippi Civil War materials on the following subjects.

AHGP Civil War website
AHGP - Civil War - Mississippi - County Formation
Civil War Mississippi Ancestry Message Board (cross posts to mailing list) MS-CW-L
History Sites - Mississippi in the Civil War
ALHN Civil War website (A GeoCities website.)
MS ALHN Civil War website
Mississippi Civil War AHGP WebRing - Join a webring for the AHGP Mississippi Civil War

Civil War Pensions - This is a transcript from Tallahatchie County MS USGenWeb Archives of the entire state of MS Census which was conducted in 1890 of Civil War Veterans and Widows.1890
USGenWeb Pensions Project - Civil War - Mississippi -by Mark Anderson
Mississippi Unit Histories - Mississippi Sons of Confederate Veterans
Mississippi Civil War Rosters
Mississippi Confederate Grave Registry - by Dan McCaskill
Civil War Stamps Vicksburg - by William S. Parks
Mississippi Library Holdings - to add later.
Mississippi Civil War Maps - USGenWeb Civil War Maps - Mississippi
Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System - National Park Service
American Civil War Battle Ships - not a complete listing of ships.
Cyndi's List - Civil War
Civil War Traveler in Mississippi
Civil War Interactive Newswire - Mississippi Tags
Georgia's Blue and Gray Trail - The Civil War in Mississippi
Mississippi Civil War Trails Project - Mississippi Department of Archives and History
MDAH | Historic Preservation
Civil War Preservation Trust: Saving America's Civil War Battlefields

Mississippi Units by County of Origin

This site is wonderful in that the units are arranged by county and was created by Dan A. McCaskill. The following list of units by county was compiled from the records at the Mississippi State Department of Archives and History and H. Grady Howell's "For Dixie Land I'll Take My Stand". Units in blue are linked to sites with muster rolls. If you see any errors, please email: Dan A. McCaskill danmccas@tecinfo.com .
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Counties in Mississippi

Links to county MS Civil War AHGP websites will become active, as each county in the MS Civil War American History and Genealogy Project is adopted.

County Date
Created Parent County County
Seat

Adams 1799 Natchez District Natchez

Alcorn 1870 Tippah / Tishomingo Corinth

Amite 1809 Wilkinson Liberty

Attala 1833 Choctaw Cession of 1830 Kosciusko

Benton 1870 Marshall / Tippah Ashland

Bolivar 1836 Choctaw Cession Of 1830 Cleveland

Calhoun 1852 Chickasaw / Lafayette / Yalobusha Pittsboro

Carroll 1833 Choctaw Cession Carrollton

Chickasaw 1836 Chickasaw Cession of 1830 Houston

Choctaw 1833 Choctaw Cession Ackerman

Claiborne 1802 Jefferson Port Gibson

Clarke 1833 Choctaw Cession of 1830 Quitman

Clay 1871 Chickasaw / Lowndes /Monroe / Oktibbeha West Point

Coahoma 1836 Chickasaw Cession of 1836 Clarksdale

Copiah 1823 Hinds Hazlehurst

Covington 1819 Lawrence / Wayne Collins

DeSoto 1836 Indian Lands Hernando

Forrest 1906 Perry Hattiesburg

Franklin 1809 Adams Meadville

George 1910 Greene / Jackson Lucedale

Greene 1811 Amite / Franklin / Wayne Leakesville

Grenada 1870 Carroll/Yalobusha /Montgomery/Tallahatchie/Webster/Choctaw Grenada

Hancock 1812 Mobile District Bay Saint Louis

Harrison 1841 Hancock / Jackson Gulfport

Hinds 1821 Choctaw Cession of 1820 Jackson

Holmes 1833 Yazoo Lexington

Humphreys 1918 Holmes / Washington /Yazoo / Sunflower Belzoni

Issaquena 1844 Washington Mayersville

Itawamba 1836 Chickasaw Cession of 1832 Fulton

Jackson 1812 Mobile District Pascagoula

Jasper 1833 Indian Lands Bay Springs

Jefferson 1799 Natchez Fayette

Jefferson
Davis 1906 Covington / Lawrence Prentiss

Jones 1826 Covington / Wayne Laurel / Ellisville

Kemper 1833 Choctaw Cession of 1830 De Kalb

Lafayette 1836 Chickasaw Cession Oxford

Lamar 1904 Marion / Pearl River Purvis

Lauderdale 1833 Choctaw Cession of 1833 Meridian

Lawrence 1814 Marion Monticello

Leake 1833 Choctaw Cession Carthage

Lee 1866 Itawamba / Pontotoc Tupelo

Leflore 1871 Carroll / Sunflower / Tallahatchie Greenwood

Lincoln 1870 Franklin / Lawrence /Copiah / Pike / Amite Brookhaven

Lowndes 1830 Monroe Columbus

Madison 1828 Yazoo Canton

Marion 1811 Amite / Wayne / Franklin Columbia

Marshall 1836 Chickasaw Cession of 1832 Holly Springs

Monroe 1821 Chickasaw Cession of 1821 Aberdeen

Montgomery 1871 Carroll / Choctaw Winona

Neshoba 1833 Choctaw Cession of 1830 Philadelphia

Newton 1836 Neshoba Decatur

Noxubee 1833 Choctaw Cession of 1830 Macon

Oktibbeha 1833 Choctaw Cession of 1830 Starkville

Panola 1836 Chickasaw Cession of 1830 Batesville

Pearl River 1890 Hancock / Marion Poplarville

Perry 1820 Greene New Augusta

Pike 1815 Marion Magnolia

Pontotoc 1836 Chickasaw Cession of 1832 Pontotoc

Prentiss 1870 Tishomingo Booneville

Quitman 1877 Panola / Coahoma Marks

Rankin 1828 Hinds Brandon

Scott 1833 Choctaw Cession of 1832 Forest

Sharkey 1876 Warren / Washington / Issaquena Rolling Fork

Simpson 1824 Choctaw Cession of 1820 Mendenhall

Smith 1833 Choctaw Cession of 1830 Raleigh

Stone 1916 Harrison Wiggins

Sunflower 1844 Bolivar Indianola

Tallahatchie 1833 Choctaw Cession of 1830 Charleston

Tate 1873 Marshall / Tunica / DeSoto Senatobia

Tippah 1836 Chickasaw Cession of 1832 Ripley

Tishomingo 1836 Chickasaw Cession of 1832 Iuka

Tunica 1836 Chickasaw Cession of 1832 Tunica

Union 1870 Pontotoc /Tippah New Albany

Walthall 1910 Marion / Pike Tylertown

Warren 1809 Natchez District Vicksburg

Washington 1827 Warren / Yazoo Greenville

Wayne 1809 Mississippi Territory's "Old"Washington County Waynesboro

Webster 1874 Montgomery / Chickasaw /Choctaw / Oktibbeha Walthall

Wilkinson 1802 Adams Woodville

Winston 1833 Choctaw Cession of 1830 Louisville

Yalobusha 1833 Choctaw Cession of 1830 Water Valley

Yazoo 1823 Hinds Yazoo City

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