Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1914-05-08
Sketch of the Noxubee Rifles
Organized in the Spring of 1861 and After Eectns OGcers
Went to Lynchburg Virginia
BY CAPT. T. J. STOKES.


ganized in the spring of 1861 anc
elected the following officers:
Geo. T. Weir, Captain; James
H. Rives, LIST Lieutenant; VIM.
D. Longstreet, End Lieutenant
and T. J. Stokes, Jr., 3nd Lieu
tenant.
We left Macon, Noxubee coun'
ty, April 80, 1861, for Corinth,
Miss, where the 18th Mississip.
| pi Regiment was organized, anc
elected the following officers:
w. H. Moore, Colonel, Aber'
deem; P. F. Liddell, Lieutenant
Colonel, Carrollton; Sam Butler,
Major, Crawford; DR.. Dalton,
Aberdeen, appointed surgeon:
1st Lieutenant Jamison H. Moore
appointed adjutant.
The following companies com.
posed the 11th Mississippi Regi-
/ ment:
/ Company A, University Grays,
4 Captain Lowry; Company B,
Il Coahoma Rifles, Captain Delaney;
\ company G., Prairie Rifles. Cap
tain Williams; Company u, Ne
shoba Rifles, Captain Franklin;
Company E, Prairie Guards, Cap
tain Hairston; Company F, Nox-
|aubee Rifles, Captain Weir; Com
|apany G., Lamar Rifles, Captain
Green; Company H, Chickasaw
Guards, Captain Tucker, after
wards General Tucker; Company
Van Dorm Reserves, Captain
l Reynolds; Company K, Carroll
Rifles, Captain Williamson.
Several days after the organi-
zation the regiment was ordered
to LyAchburo. Va, at which
place May 18th, the regiment
was sworn into the Confederate
service. A few days after this
the regiment was ordered to
| Havrer's Ferry Va. Unon our
|arrivaI there we reported to Col.
II. J. Jackson. afterwards Lieu
/ tenant General jackson. known
as "Stonewall," who was then
in command. In the early part
OF June, Gen. Jos. E. Johnston,
who had been appointed a gen.
eral in the Confederate army,
took command and withdrew his
command from Harper's Ferry
to Winchester. where we re-
NAMED until July 18. While at
Winchester the regiment was put
into a brigade with the End Mis-
sissippi, 4th Alabama and 9Th
North Carolina, under the COM
mand of Barnard E. Bee.
Leaving Winchester on the af-
ternoon Of July 18, our portion
Of Johnston's command marched
to Piedmont, arriving late in the
afternoon Of July 10. Early in
the morning of July 20, Col.
Moore hurriedly ordered Com
pany A and Company F, the two
right companies of the regiment,
to get aboard the train to go to
Manassas Junction. Gen. john
ston had made his movements
from Harper's Ferry and Win
chester to be ready to assist Gen.
Beauregard at Manassas, before
whose army was the main body
of the Federal army from which
Cen. Beauregard was expecting
an attack. We reached Manas-
sas about twelve o'clock and that
afternoon marched five or six
miles from Manassas Junction,
where we bivouaced for the
night.
The next morning the firing
began about 8 O'Clock in the di-
rection of Sudley's Ford, at which
place the federals crossed to
make the attack. We were soon
ordered to march in the direction
Of the firing. Our companies
were ordered to march with the
End Mississippi under Col. Faulk.
ner. About Il o'clock we were
under fire, but did no firing our.
selves. The federals having
flanked our position, we were
compelled to fall back and take
up a new position. About
o'clock our companies were en-
Gagged with the federal regiment
and q battery of artillery, ir
which we lost several of our mer
and several of Company A killed
and wounded. Of our men Thos
Wilbanks killed, VIM. Simmons
mortally wounded and died short
" after. Harrison Cockerell NOR
tally wounded and carried bacl
to Manassas and died that night
After the battle we gathered VI
what prisoners we could find ant
-went back to the Junction.