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11th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment

11th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment
Active 1863–1865
Country  Confederate States
Allegiance  Mississippi
Branch  Confederate States Army
Type Cavalry
Size Regiment
Part of Ferguson's Brigade
Nickname(s) "Perrin's regiment"
Facings Yellow
Engagements

American Civil War

Commanders
Commanding officers

American Civil War

The 11th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment, also known as Perrin's regiment, was a cavalry formation in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, and was successively commanded by Colonel Robert O. Perrin and Lieutenant-Colonel Henry L. Muldrow.

The regiment was organized and mustered into Confederate service on October 6, 1863, in North and Middle Mississippi from new and existing companies of mounted men as Perrin's Battalion of Mississippi Cavalry. It was expanded, reorganized, and redesignated on December 23, 1863, as Perrin's Regiment of Mississippi Cavalry. Perrin's regiment was redesignated on March 20, 1865, as the 11th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment. It was disbanded in May 1865.

Units of Perrin's regiment included:



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