6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment

6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment
ActiveAugust 1861 - April 1865
Country Confederate States
Allegiance Mississippi
Branch Army
TypeInfantry
SizeRegiment
Nickname(s)"The Bloody Sixth"[1]
BattlesAmerican Civil War
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Robert Lowry

The 6th Mississippi Infantry Regiment was a unit of the Confederate States Army that fought in many battles of the Western theater of the American Civil War. After taking heavy casualties at the Battle of Shiloh, the 6th Regiment fought in the Vicksburg Campaign, operations against anti-Confederate guerillas in Jones County, Mississippi, the Atlanta campaign, and the Franklin-Nashville campaign.

  1. ^ "Untitled clipping". Pascagoula, Mississippi Chronicle. September 5, 1884. Retrieved 9 April 2024.