The regiment formed in May 1862 at Camp Moore by adding five independent companies to a battalion that Allen Thomas recruited for the state.

It manned defenses on the left flank during the Siege of Vicksburg and was captured when the city fell.

In the summer of 1864, the men were ordered to report to a camp near Alexandria, Louisiana, but many of the soldiers stayed home.

Those soldiers who reported to camp spent the rest of the war near Pineville, Louisiana, and disbanded in May 1865.

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