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Perry County, Mississippi was formed from the western half of Greene County, Mississippi on February 3, 1820. It was the first county formed after Mississippi attained its statehood in 1817 and the sixteenth county to be formed out of the old Mississippi Territory. The county's name was taken from a popular naval hero of the War of 1812, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry. In 1908, Perry County would be split in half with the western half becoming the newly formed Forrest County, Mississippi. Perry County has always had a rich and steep tradition of men volunteering and participating in various conflicts and wars. During the Civil War, Perry County raised 6 military units to fight for the Confederacy. This book contains the names of those men who served in the military from the American Revolution to World War II.
The War of Northern Aggression, The War Between the States, or The Civil War---no matter what one chooses to call it, the war between the North and the South was brutal. No one was left unaffected by this event. Both young and old men quickly enlisted for the side they believed in. This would often pit brother against brother and father against son. The men of Perry County, Mississippi also heeded the call to arms. Six companies of Confederate troops would form in Perry County along with men from the neighboring Greene and Jones Counties. In this book are the names of the men who served on both sides---the Blue and the Grey
This includes text from The Official and Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, 1908, by Dunbar Rowland with a new index by H. Grady Howell, Jr.
This is an accounting of the experiences of the soldiers of Hardcastle's 3rd Battalion Mississippi Infantry from enlistment to the end of the war. It includes their mid-war incarnation as the 45th Mississippi Regiment and the role they played in Cleburne's fabled division during almost every major engagement of the Army of Tennessee. Told as much as possible from the point of view of the soldier, the book shows what motivated the original volunteers to join and continue fighting to the end.