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Company B, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment, United States Volunteers
COMPANY B,
2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment, United States Volunteers
The Company was mustered into United States Service on June 1st, 1898, at 
Jackson, Mississippi, as Company B of the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment, 
United States Volunteers, for two years service. The Company was mustered out 
of service with the Regiment on December 21st, 1898, at Columbia, Tennessee.

„X	CAPTAIN
Woods, Edgar H.: Of Rosedale, Mississippi.

„X	FIRST LIEUTENANT
Humphreys, Benjamin D.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.

„X	SECOND LIEUTENANT
McGuire, Robert J.: Of Rosedale, Mississippi.

„X	FIRST SERGEANT
Fontaine, Edward L.: Of Lyon, Mississippi.

„X	QUARTERMASTER SERGEANT
Beyer, Vincent L. [S.]: Of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Mustered into service as 
a Private in Company I, no date; transferred to Company B, no date; promoted to 
Quartermaster Sergeant on August 1st, 1898. [Born in Texas in 1874; married 
Miss Effie Beyer; listed as being employed as a nurseryman in Ocean Springs, 
Mississippi, in 1920; Died in 1920.]
George, William C.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi. Mustered into service as Company 
Quartermaster Sergeant in Company B, 2nd Mississippi Volunteer Infantry 
Regiment, no date; discharged to accept a commission in the 3rd Mississippi 
Volunteer Infantry Regiment, no date. Mustered into service as First Lieutenant 
of Company A, 3rd Mississippi Volunteer Infantry Regiment, no date; Resigned on 
October 29th, 1898.

„X	SERGEANT
Gwin [Gwins], Samuel L.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi. Mustered into service as a 
Sergeant in Company B, 2nd Mississippi Volunteer Infantry Regiment, no date; 
discharged to accept a commission in the 3rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment. 
Mustered into service as Captain of Comapny A, 3rd Mississippi Volunteer 
Infantry Regiment, no date.
Humphreys, Benjamin G.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Lowd, Howard B.: Of Washington, D.C.
Montjoy, Paul D.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi. Discharged to accept a commission 
in the 3rd Mississippi Volunteer Infantry Regiment, but no list on there rolls.
Prophet, John R.: Of Sidon, Mississippi.
Stein, Caesar: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.

„X	CORPORAL
Baird, Thomas C.: Of Baird, Mississippi. Mustered into service as a Corporal in 
Company B, 2nd Mississippi Volunteer Infantry Regiment, no date; discharged to 
accept a commission in the 5th United States Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
Casey, John L.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Garrard, Joseph B.: Of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Mustered into service as a 
Private in Company I, no date; transferred as a Corporal to Company B, no date. 
Enlisted in Company _, 29th United States Volunteer Infantry Regiment; served 
in the Philippine Islands. [Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1871; married 
Miss Carrie Ann Johnson in January of 1906, and the couple had two children; 
Worked as a Brick Manufacturer and Hardware Merchant in Ocean Springs, 
Mississippi; Died in 1915.]
Gwin, Edgar C.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi. Mustered into service as a Corporal 
in Company B, 2nd Mississippi Volunteer Infantry Regiment, no date; discharged 
to accept a commission in the 3rd Mississippi Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
Gwynne, William F.: Of Memphis, Tennessee.
Hemmingway, James G.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Herndon, Leonard N.: Of Boyle, Mississippi.
Richardson, Samuel B.: Of Grennwood, Mississippi.
Shattuck, Alex L.: Of Gunnison, Mississippi.
Spencer, Clark S.: Of Phillip, Mississippi.
Ward, John W.: Of Boyle, Mississippi.
Warfield, Guy F.: Of Gunnison, Mississippi.
Wells, Charles O.: Of Sidon, Mississippi.
Wilson, Hubert B.: Of Rosedale, Mississippi.

„X	ARTIFICER
Power, Steve A.: Of Ruleville, Mississippi.

„X	WAGONER
Alston, Wililam H.: Of Clarksdale, Mississippi.

„X	MUSICIAN
Pease, George E.: Of Gunnison [Rosedale], Mississippi. Mustered into service as 
a Private in Company B, no date; appointed as a Musician, no date; transferred 
to the Regimental Band, no date.
Pegg, Luther A.: Of Jonestown, Mississippi.
Wakefield, James S.: Of Boyle, Mississippi.

„X	PRIVATE
Abby, Earl G.: Of Waterloo, Indiana.
Allen, John K.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Allen, Thomas W.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Arken, Samuel: Of Memphis, Tennessee.
Armstrong, James E.: Of Phillip, Mississippi.
Arnold, Henry A.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.  Mustered into service as a 
Private in Company B, no date; Transferred to the Regimental Band, no date.
Arnold, Jake F.: Of Gunnison, Mississippi.
Arnold, Jacob: Of Memphis, Tennessee.
Atkins, Thomas B.: Of Boyle [Rosedale], Mississippi. Mustered into service as a 
Private in Company B, no date; Transferred to the Regimental Band, no date.
Baker, Charles H.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi. Transferred to the United States 
Army Hospital Corps, no date.
Baker, Charles T.: Of Clay County, Arkansas [Pontotoc, Mississippi]. Mustered 
into service as a Private in Company L, no date; transferred to Company B, no 
date.
Barr, Lester E.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi. Discharged on December 6th, 1898.
Bell, Ezra: Of Jackson, Mississippi. Discharged on June 13th, 1898.
Bellman, Charles M.: Of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Mustered into service as a 
Private in Company I, no date; transferred to Company B, no date. [Born in 
1876; Employed as a Conductor with the GM&O Railroad, and lived at Mobile, 
Alabama; Died in 1956.]
Boswell, John R.: Of Edora, Mississippi.
Braden, John: Of Rosedale, Mississippi.
Brewer, John W.: Of Lula, Mississippi.
Bridger, Dock K.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi. Transferred to the 3rd Mississippi 
Volunteer Infantry Regiment, no date.
Bridgers, James C.: Of Webb, Mississippi.
Bruce, Robert: Of Shelby, Mississippi.
Calvert, Dow D.: Of Cleveland, Mississippi.
Catchet [Catchat, Catchot], John G. [J.]: Of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. 
Mustered into service as a Private in Company I, no date; transferred to 
Company B, no date. [Born in 1863; married Miss Bessie Robbins in 1900, and the 
couple had five children; Employed as a Railroad Laborer; Died in 1910; buried 
at Bellande Cemetery in Ocean Springs, Jackson County, Mississippi.]
Champlin, Porter Hand: Of Hancock [Ocean Springs], Mississippi. Mustered into 
service as a Private in Company I, no date; transferred to Company B, no date. 
[Born on July 3rd, 1870, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; Educated in New 
Orleans, Louisiana; Worked as a Lighthouse Inspector until April of 1898, when 
he resigned to enlisted; married Miss Leonie Dufrechon on January 8th, 1900; 
Died on January 30th, 1933, at Biloxi, Mississippi; buried at the Biloxi City 
Cemetery in Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi.]
Chaney, Rife P.: Of Lobdell, Mississippi.
Clark, William W.: Of Richmond, Virginia.
Collins, Neely: Of Clover Hill, Mississippi.
Corsbie, Mace H.: Of Beards, Kentucky.
Crum, James W.: Of Phillips, Mississippi.
Davidson, Lewis E.: Of Itta Bena, Mississippi.
Diett, Frank H.: Of South Bend, Indiana.
Draper, Earnest: Of Princeton, Mississippi.
Edgar, Walter P.: Of Courtland, Mississippi.
Edmondston, Dave B.: Of Union City, Tennessee.
Edwards, William A.: Of Phillips, Mississippi. Discharged on November 9th, 
1898, to enlist in the United States Army.
Fitzgerald, Edward B.: Of Gunnison, Mississippi.
Foshee, Jesse O.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Fuller, Thomas W.: Of Dockery [Rosedale], Mississippi. Mustered into service as 
a Private in Company B, no date; transferred to the Regimental Band, no date.
Girard, Charles: Of Chicago, Illinois.
Gradner, Levi B.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Halstead, Horace H.: Of Cleveland, Mississippi.
Hardenstein, Frank W.: Of Memphis, Tennessee.
Harrell, E.: Of Wesson, Mississippi.
Homes, Guy T.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Hopkins, Leonard: Of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. [Born in Texas in 1871; Died 
in 1900.]
Howell, John: Of Memphis, Tennessee.
Huffman, Edgar B.: Of Greenwood [Greenville], Mississippi. Mustered into 
service as a Private in Company B, no date; transferred to Company F, no date.
Kennedy, John E.: Of Lula, Mississippi.
Langston [Langstom], Henry C.: Of Cleveland [Bowling Green], Mississippi. 
Mustered into service as a Private in Company K, no date; transferred to 
Company B, no date.
Lauderdale, Thomas C.: Of Shelby, Mississippi.
Lovinggod, Thomas A.: Of Alligator Lake, Mississippi.
Lowry, Patrick H.: Of Jackson, Mississippi. Discharged on December 7th, 1898.
McGan, Evley: Of Ruleville, Mississippi.
McGuire, Henry Q.: Of Baird, Mississippi.
McGuire, Lamar: Of Baird, Mississippi.
Merkel, Charles: Of New York City, New York.
Moseley, George V.: Of Canton, Mississippi. Transferred to the United States 
Army Hospital Corps, no date.
Nixon, Wesley J.: Of Jackson, Mississippi. Discharged on June 13th, 1898.
Nugent, Thomas H.: Of Jackson, Mississippi.
Nunally, John D.: Of Doublin, Mississippi.
Olansky, J.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Pace, Paul M.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi. Transferred to the United States Army 
Hospital Corps, no date.
Paley Jr., Paul: Of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Transferred to the United 
States Army Hospital Corps, no date.
Parish, Ben N.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Parish, Robert P.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Perry, Jesse T.: Of Gunnison, Mississippi. Mustered into service as a Private 
in Company I, no date; transferred to Company B, no date.
Redditt, William L.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi. Transferred to the United 
States Army Hospital Corps, no date.
Richards, Jack D.: Of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Mustered into service as a 
Private in Company I, no date; transferred to Company B, no date.
Robinson [Robison], John M.: Of Horse Creek, Mississippi. Mustered into service 
as a Private in Company L, no date; transferred to Company B, no date.
Rodgers, Jesse T.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Rogers, Jeff: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Sandlin, William H.: Of Coila, Mississippi. Died in Hospital on August 17th, 
1898.
Scales, Robert W.: Of Greenwood, Mississippi.
Schriber [Schreiber], Dolph: Of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Mustered into 
service as a Private in Company I, no date; transferred to Company B, no date.
Schwartzhoff, Sidney: Of Rosedale, Mississippi. Transferred to the United 
States Army Hospital Corps, no date.
Shannon, William V.: Of Ocean Springs, Mississippi. Mustered into service as a 
Private in Company I, no date; transferred to Company B, no date. [Born in 
1878; Died in July of 1910 of heat prostration at El Centro, California; buried 
at El Centro, California.]
Shryock, Frank M.: Of Lyon, Mississippi.
Sloat, George W.: Of Cleveland, Mississippi.
Smith, Amos J.: Of Jackson, Mississippi. Discharged on June 13th, 1898.
Stone, Charles W.: Of Lyon, Mississippi.
Thronhill, Thomas D.: Of Baird, Mississippi.
Tillman, Clifford F.: Of Itta Bena, Mississippi.
Tyson, Perry A.: Of Phillips, Mississippi.
Weber, George E.: Of Itta Bena, Mississippi.
Weir, James B.: Of Yazoo City, Mississippi.
Williams, Charles F.: Of Gunnison, Mississippi. Mustered into service as a 
Private in Company L, no date; transferred to Company B, no date.
Woods, Henry F.: Of Cleveland, Mississippi.
Wyse, Lagrone:: Of Sallis, Mississippi.

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