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6th
Battalion Infantry, Company K
"The Kemper Guards"
This information was
donated by Tom Neely.
Company K of the 6th Battalion Infantry, known as the Kemper Guards, was said to have been organized July 13, 1861, and lists
many of the same officers as Company I, of the 5th Regiment:
Captains: Adam T. Steinas (Stennis); Tandy C. K. Bostick, D. C. Durham, wounded at Atlanta
First Lieutenants: Tandy C. K. Bostick, R. M. Peden, D. C. Chamberlain
Second Lieutenants: Allen J. Henderson, John McRae
Third Lieutenants: James D. Peden, D. D. Durham
Adam T. Stennis was later elected Major of the 5th Mississippi Infantry Regiment.
| Name |
Enlisted |
Additional
Information |
| Wilson, Hugh W., Pvt. |
Pleasant Springs, MS
Jul 8, 1861 into the Kemper Guards; transferred to 11th MS, Co. D in the
fall of 1862 |
Clothing had 13
bullet holes but not injured at Gettysburg Jul 3, 1863; wounded at the
Wilderness, May 6, 1864 |
Sources: Rowland, Military History of
Mississippi, 1803-1898, Brandon Printing, 1908
Sifakis, Compendium of the Confederate Armies-Mississippi,
Facts on File, NY, 1995
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