The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1900-12-01
Tho Ninth and Tenth Regiments.

"eohiAou az HensacOld, fla., and
which were the first organized for the Con-
federate servicel These two-Ninth and
Tenth-drew lots for seniority. Col. ChaI-
mers was lucky and became colonel of the
Ninth, Phillips of the Tenth. These reei-
ments were the first Cor the twelve months
service.
remember there were already two
brigades, provided for in some way, in the
State, perhaps by Gov. Pettus. Alcorn
commanded one and Clark the other, and
hube Davis, as l remember, commanded
the division. Now tell me, how is it that
the Ninth Mississippi Regiment Of the Con-
federate army was not the Firstl My
company was mustered here on the 9th of
March, 1861, by Richard Griffith of Jack
son, afterward colonel of the Twelfth Regi-
ment.
As understood, the order of the Con-
federate regiments was:
st-Ninth-Chalmers. colonel.
Tenth-Phillips, colonel
Eleventh-Falkner, colonel.
Twelfth-Griffith, colonel.
MISUNDERSTANDING colonel.
Fourteenth-Baldwin, colonel
Fifteepth-Harrell, colonel.
Sixteenth-Posey, colonel
Observation-Disclosures colonel
Eighteenth-Burt, colonel.
Nineteenth-Mott, colonel - first
mustered for the war
The above l remember, and knew the
colonels as well as many others personally.
Some OF the eight first regiments-the two
brigades referred to-as l remember. were
sixty day enlistments. We're all of them
such in the first instancel Were they State
troops-the army or the Statel If mis-
take not, Gen. A. NJ West was chief
quartermaster and commissary and Col.
Jones s. Hamilton was acknowledgement
How is iii Your friend,
WIN. M. STRICKLAND.
In the Mississippi volume of the
Confederate Military History, recent
ly published, this explains matter
that has not been understood by many
others even as well informed as Major
Strickland:
On january 90, 1861, the Secession
Convention adopted the following:
An ordinance to regulate the military sys-
Sec. l. Be it ordained by the people of
Mississippi in convention assembled, That
one division Of volunteers be as early as
practicable enlisted and mustered into SER
vice by order of the Military Board, here
matter constituted, to serve until dis
charged, as hereinafter provided, and to
consist OF four brigades, each brigade to be
composed of two regiments, and each regi-
ment of ten companies of infantry or
rifemen, and each company of not less
than forty eight nor more than one hun
dred men, and also not exceeding ten COM
panies of cavalry of not less than fifty
men each, and not exceeding ten COM
panies of artillery of not less than sixty
men each, and that the volunteers so en-
listed shall not be subject in any manner
to the officers Of the militia.
Sec. 2. That the eight regiments of in
fantry or rihemen shall be raised as follows
here follows a list of the counties allotted
to each regiment. The companies of cav
airy and artillery to be raised indiscrim-
inately from the State at large).
Thus it appears that agreeable to
this ordinance eight regiments were to
be raised within the State.
This ordinance was adopted January
23, 1861. In March of the same year,
some two months after, the first troops
that went out from the State of Missis-
sippi went to Pensacola, Fla, and were
there numbered by Gen. Griffith.
The passage of the ordinance was
notice to all the world, certainly to
Mississippians, that eight regiments
from one to eight-would be raised
within the State. What was more
natural than for Gen. Griffith to begin
numbering the first troops that went
ou. from the State as nine and ten?
None of the eight regiments were
sixty day" troops. They were mus
tered Ito serve until discharged" and
most of them got their discharge on
bloody battle-fields and in army hos.
pitfalls. The sixty day men served out
their enlistment in camp at Bowling
Green, KY, under Brig. Gen. James l..
Alcorn.
In the first announced staff of the
commander-in-chief, Gov. John J. Pet
tus, Gen. W. L. Sykes was adjutant-
general. He was succeeded by Col.
VIM. II. Brown, and .he by Col. Jones
S. Hamilton. These officers were ac-
tive, Jealous and successful in organic
ing and equipping troops for service.
The Commercial Appeal, in referring
to Bishop Gailor in a deservedly com
plimentary way, speaks of hirA as a
native of Memphis. Our impression
is that he was born in jackson, Miss.
His father was in the newspaper busi-
ness in jackson from 1854 until the
breaking out of the war, when he re-
moved to Memphis, enlisted in the
Confederate service, and was killed at
Perryville.