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Davis, on the left, advanced, driving the enemy before him and capturing his batteries. General Davis was unable to hold the position he had gained. The enemy concentrated on his front and flanks an overwhelming force. The brigade maintained its position until every field officer save two were shot down, and its ranks terribly thinned. ... From the Gettysburg battle report of General Heth, Division commander

About the Brigade: This was a brigade consisting of mainly men from the state of Mississippi. The 2nd and 11th Regiments had served from Manassas and into the Valley Campaign with Jackson as members of Whiting's Brigade. These two units were brigaded with the newer Mississippi regiments (and a North Carolina unit) prior to the Gettysburg Campaign and placed under General Davis in Heth's Division of the Third Corps. The brigade was effectively destroyed in the fighting around Petersburg on April 2, 1865. There were very few survivors left by Appomattox.

Image of General Joseph R. Davis, commander of the brigade

The main commander for this brigade was General Joseph R. Davis. The brigade's regiments included the 2d, 11th, and 42d Mississippi Regiments and the 52d North Carolina Regiment.

2d Mississippi

Mainly raised from Tishomingo, Tippah, Itawamba, and Pontotoc counties. The 2nd Mississippi has a extensive regimental history online (external link).

• Lt. Col. John Alan Blair (08/23/35-11/01/98)
• Of Hardeman Cty TN; wounded at 1st Manassass; POW Gettysburg & Hatcher's Run; postwar lawyer
• Lt. Col. Bartley B. Boone
• Maj. John H. Buchanan (ca. 1820-?)
• Wounded at Gettysburg and at Petersburg
• Col. William C. Falkner
• Lt. Col. David W. Humpherys (?-07/03/63)
• Of Ripley; killed at Gettysburg
• Col. John M. Stone

11th Mississippi

Raised in Lafayette, Coahoma, Chickasaw, Neshoba, Lowndes, Noxubee, Monroe, and Carroll counties. There is an online history (external link).

• Lt. Col. Samuel F. Butler (?-10/03/62)
• Mortally wounded in the abdomen at Sharpsburg
• Maj. Taliaferro S. Evans
• Lt. Col. Alexander H. Franklin (1825-?)
• Col. Francis M. Green (11/07/23-05/15/64)
• Born Fauqier Cty VA; lawyer in Oxford mortally wounded at Spotsylvania May 12th
• Col. Philip Frank Liddell (?-09/25/62)
• Mortally wounded at Sharpsburg
• Lt. Col. William Benjamin Lowry (ca. 1842-?)
• Of Lowndes Cty; wounded at Seven Pines and killed in postwar Texas gunfight
• Col. William Hudson Moore (09/14/29-11/09/62)
• Of Aberdeen; resigned to become colonel of 43d MS; mortally wounded at Cornith
• Col. Reuben O. Reynolds
• Lt. Col. George W. Shannon (ca. 1840-?)
• Of Okolona; wded at Gaines Mill; captured at Hatcher's Run

42d Mississippi

There is a regimental history online (external link).

• Col. William A. Feeney
• Maj. Robert Weakley Locke (02/22/29-06/17/1904)
• Tennessee-born, badly wded at Gettysburg; left postwar diary
• Col. Hugh R. Miller
• Lt. Col. Hillery Moseley
• Panola Cty doctor wded at Gettysburg; postwar state legislator
• Col. Andrew M. Nelson

55th North Carolina

• Lt. Col. Alfred H. Belo
• Lt. Col. Abner Sydenham Calloway (09/06/38-1873)
• Of Wilkes Cty; UNC grad and NC legislator in 1864
• Col. John K. Connally
• Lt. Col. Maurice T. Smith
• Maj. James S. Whitehead (ca. 1837-1862)
• Pitt Cty lawyer; died of disease

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