Letter

Sterling Price to Hpdqrs. Dept. Of Mississippi And Hast Louisiana, October 26, 1862

October 26, 1862.

October 26, 1862. Major KIMMEL :

MaJog: The following regiments were ordered to report for duty at Meridian :

From General Bowen’s division :

Fourteenth Arkansas, Captain Fowler; Sixteenth Arkansas, Colonel Provence; Seventeenth Arkansas, Captain Dotson; Highteenth Arkansas, Captain Barnett; Adams’ Arkansas, Colonel Adams; Jones’ Arkansas battalion, Major Wilson.

From General Maury’s division :

Forty-ninth and Fifty-fifth Tennessee, Colonel Bailey; Forty-second Tennessee, Colonel Quarles; First Mississippi, Fifty-third Tennessee, Ninth Tennessee, Forty-sixth Tennessee, and Twenty-seventh Alabama, Colonel Simonton.

Respectfully submitted.

Major-General, Commanding.

HpDQrs. DEPT. OF MISSISSIPPI AND HAST LOUISIANA,

Jackson, October 28, 1862.

Commanding, Holly Springs:

GENERAL: You will cause all men between the ages of eighteen and

thirty-five years now attached to corps of Partisan Rangers, who have

Editor's Notes
From: Operations in West Tennessee and Mississippi, Pt. 1. Summary: Sterling Price orders multiple Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Alabama regiments to report for duty at Meridian during the Civil War in October 1862.
Sources
The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 17, Part 1 View original source ↗