1st MS Cavalry, Co. E

"Wood's Regiment"

Col. Wirt Adams

Originally called First Mississippi Cavalry. Wood's Regiment after the promotion of Adams. 

The Name of the Regiment

     Those not accustomed to reading about regiments in Confederate service will be challenged by the lack of system by which they were named. Some regiments were assigned numbers, e.g., "Third Alabama Cavalry" for a state unit, or "First Confederate Infantry" for a Confederate unit. Often, these regiments are also alternately referred to by the names of their commanders, e.g. "Jones' Cavalry" or "Smith's Infantry."
     Still other regiments, such as Adams' (later Wood's) Cavalry had no numerical names, but are solely referred to by their commanders' names.
     An added complexity with Adams' Cavalry is that for a short time, until 21 December 1861, it bore the name "First Mississippi Cavalry." On that date, its name was officially changed to "Adams' Cavalry."  It kept this name until November, 1863, when, upon the elevation of Robert C. Wood as commander, its official name became "Wood's Mississippi Cavalry," though it was often still informally called by its earlier name, "Adams' Cavalry." After the 1861 name change, the name "First Mississippi Cavalry" was given to an entirely separate unit. 
                                                     Patrick T. Dolan

Colonel - Wirt Adams, promoted Brigadier-General Sept 25, 1863
Lieutenant Colonels - Robert C. Wood, Jr., Thomas Lewers, Stephen B. Cleaveland
Majors - James Hagan (transferred to Alabama Artillery), Isaac F Harrison, Thomas Lewers, Stephen B. Cleaveland A. Muldrow
Captain of Company E-  A. Muldrow

Organized for the war on Oct 15, 1861. 

Battles: Woodbury (detachment) October 29, 1861
Morgantown (detachment) October 31, 1861
Scout in the vicinity of Russellville (detachment) April 8, 1862
Reconnaissance from Shiloh Battlefield (detachment) April 8, 1862
Corinth Campaign - April - June 1862
Iuka - September 19, 1862
Corinth - October 3-4, 1862
Central Mississippi Campaign (October 1862- January 1863)
Grierson's Raid - April 17 - May 2, 1863
Union Church (skirmish-three companies) April 28, 1863
Vicksburg Campaign - May - July 1863
Raymond - May 12, 1863
Big Black River Bridge (detachment) May 17, 1863
Yazoo River - May 23-31, 1863
Jones Plantation, near Birdsong Ferry- June 22, 1863
Meridian Campaign - Feb - March 1864
Concord Church - December 1, 1864
Wilson's Raid - March - April, 1865

Listed below are the surnames of men enlisted in Co. E, Wood's Regiment of Confederate Cavalry (CSA). Wirt Adams was its first commander, then Robert C. Wood.  This list of surnames was donated by Tom Neely. If you have additional questions, you may email him. If you have additional information to add, please email Marsha. 

Archibald

Bell

Bookter

Brown

Bunch

Carothers

Cassady

Chandler

Colman

Cooper

Cromwell

Davis

Deshazo

Dobbs, Jesse Jarvis buried in Dobbs-Bowles Cemetery in Choctaw Co., MS, entered as private and paroled as private after the surrender -- Linda G. Hayes

Ellis

Ennis

Farmer

Fulghen

Gilbert

Gillespie

Glenn

Green

Harrell

Henry

Hilgers

Hood

Isbell

James

Johnson, Elijah Jefferson-  buried in Pilgrim’s Rest Baptist Church cemetery, located on Highway 315 , Panola, Co. MS , six miles South of Highway 6. 

Joyner

Key

Knight

Lampkin

Leverett

Lightfoot

Lykes

Maberry

Makamson

Marquis

Matkins

May

McDowell

McKinzie

Miers

Mohon

Mooring

Morgan

Muldrow

Nichols

Owen

Passons

Pernell

Puller

Quinn

Robertson

Sawyer

Smith

Stark

Sturdevant

Teague

Thomas

Toombs

Vinson

Watson

Williams, William J.    enlisted and paroled as a private, -- Linda G. Hayes

Woodruff

Yeager

Rowland, Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898, Brandon, 1908
Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies - Mississippi