862dg: Armament of Confederate Troops stationed around Grenada Mississippi 12 June 1862

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                 Armament of Confederate Troops 
              stationed around Grenada Mississippi  
                          12 June 1862 

                                   Number
                           Present Unarmed        Notes
1st Alabama Inf. Regiment   111       -          
33rd Mississippi Inf. Ret   669     669    397 condemned 
                                               muskets
                                            No ammunition
Pointe Coupee Lt. Arty.     165      -      6 - 3" rifles    
                                            2 Howitzers
                                            2 - 3.75" smoothbores
Gallimard's Sappers/Miners   50      -      50 muskets
Ward's Arty Battalion       202      -      2 Companies
                                           l0 - 2pdr breech loaders
                                            24 rds per gun
Thomasson's Company          30
Moorehead's Partisan Rangers 40
20th Mississippi Inf Rgt     45     45      unarmed, no munitions 
Ford's Cavalry Co.           58     58      unarmed, no munitions
1st Confederate Battalion   320      -      434 muskets, 40 rds/
                                              man
Missouri Volunteers         247
12th Louisiana Inf Regt     849    260         




U.S.  War Department, The War of the Succession, 
A Compilation of Official Records of the Union and 
Confederate Armies,  Government Printing Office; 
Washington D.C. 1882

Source: George Nafziger Order of Battle Collection