Organization:
Organized with four companies, each one composed of men selected from the 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st Infantry Regiments in June 1862. Regiment surrendered at Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, on July 4, 1863. Paroled there later in month. Apparently never reorganized. There is one reference to the battalion on April 20, 1864, as being in Fagan's Cavalry Division, District of Arkansas, Trans-Mississippi Department. Was probably a fragment of the command serving mounted in it's home state.
First Commander:
Major William F. Rapley
Field Commander:
Major C.L. Jackson [Temporary assignment]
Assignments:
Dockery's-Cabell's Brigade, Maury's Division, Army of the West Department #2
June-September 1862
Cabell's Brigade, Maury's Division, Price's Corps, Army of West Tennessee, Department #2
September-October 1862
Cabell's Brigade, Price's Corps, Army of West Tennessee, Department of Missisippi and East Louisiana
October 1862
Herbert's Brigade, Bowen's Division, Price's Corps, Army of West Tennessee, Department of Mississippi
and East Louisiana
October 1862
Craven's Brigade, Bowen's Division, Price's Corps, Army of West Tennessee, Department of Mississippi
and East Louisiana
October 1862-December 1862
Craven-Green's Brigade, Bowen's Division, 2nd Corps, Army of North Mississippi, Department of
Mississippi and East Louisiana
December 1862-January 1863
Green's Brigade, Price-Forney's Division, Army of North Mississippi, Department of Mississippi and
East Louisiana
January-February 1863
Green's Brigade, Forney-Bowen's Division, 2nd Military District, Department of Mississippi and East
Louisiana
March-April 1863
Green's Brigade, Bowen's Division, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana
April-July 1863
Fagan's Cavalry Division, District of Arkansas, Trans-Mississippi Department
April 1864
Battles: Corinth October 3-4, 1862 Steele's Bayou Expedition March 14-27, 1863 Rolling Fork March 20, 1863 Grand Gulf April 29, 1863 Vicksburg Campaign May-July 1863 Port Gibson May 1, 1863 Champion Hill May 16, 1863 Big Black River Bridge May 17, 1863 Vicksburg Seige May-July 1863 Camden Expedition March-May 1864 Marks' Mill April 25, 1864