Missouri - Confederate Army


Brothers:

Colonel Jeremiah Cockrell

 


Brigadier General Francis Cockrell

3rd Battalion, Missouri Infantry, Johnson County, Missouri

2nd Regiment, Missouri Infantry


3rd Battalion, Missouri Infantry

"Units of the Confederate States Army" by Joseph H. Crute, Jr. contains no history for this unit.


2nd Regiment, Missouri Infantry

2nd (Burbridge's) Infantry Regiment [also called 1st Regiment] was assembled at Springfield, Missouri, in January, 1862. Some of its members were from Andrew and Greene counties. After fighting at Elkhorn Tavern it was sent east of the Mississippi River and saw action at

Iuka,

Corinth,

and

Hatchie Bridge.

Later the unit was attached to Bowen's Brigade in the Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana. It participated in various conflicts during the

Vicksburg siege.

In the

Atlanta Campaign,

May 18 to September 5, the 2nd/6th reported 12 killed, 136 wounded, and 61 missing, and it sustained 84 casualties at

Allatoona.

Few surrendered in May, 1865. The field officers were Colonels John Q. Burbridge, Francis M. Cockrell, and Peter Dwyer, Edward B. Hull, and Pembroke S. Senteny; and Major William F. Carter.


Information compiled by David Vardiman from visiting Vicksburg in April 2009 and

National Park Service's Sailors and Soldiers surname search database.

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