University Greys

The University Greys (or Grays) were Company A of the 11th Mississippi Infantry Regiment in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.

Part of the Army of Northern Virginia, the Greys served in many of the most famous and bloody battles of the war.

At the beginning of the American Civil War, most of the student body of the University of Mississippi rallied to the Confederate cause.

[4] As a unit of the division under the command of Brigadier General J. Johnston Pettigrew in Pickett's Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, when the Confederates made a desperate frontal assault on the Union entrenchments atop Cemetery Ridge on July 3, 1863.

The Greys penetrated further into the Union position than any other unit, but at the terrible cost: every soldier in the company who started the assault was either killed, wounded or captured.