Gober’s Regiment Volunteer Mounted Infantry
From Sifakis, Compendium of C.S. Armies: Louisiana, 124-25:
Organization: Organized in June 1864. The six Louisiana companies of Powers’ (Confederate) Cavalry Regiment were merged into this regiment in October 1864. Disbanded with the companies from Powers’ Confederate Cavalry Regiment returning to their previous organization, the 18th Louisiana Cavalry Battalion and the balance of the regiment being assigned to Ogden’s Cavalry Regiment in January 1865.
First Commander: Daniel C. Gober, COL
Field Officers: Thomas Bynum, MAJ; Haley M. Carter, LTC; James T. Coleman, MAJ
Assignments: Scott’s Brigade, W. Adams’ Cavalry Division, Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana (Jun-Aug 64); Scott’s Cavalry Brigade, District South of Homochitto, Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana (Aug-Oct 64); [Sub]-District of Southwest Mississippi and East Louisiana, Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana (Oct-Dec 64); Scott’s Cavalry Brigade, Northern Sub-district of Mississippi, District of Mississippi and East Louisiana, Department of Alabama, Mississippi, and East Louisiana (Dec 64-Jan 65)
Battles: Merritt’s Plantation [skirmish] (May 18-19, 1864); Doyal’s Plantation [skirmish] (August 5, 1864); Sara Bayou [skirmish] (October 4, 1864); Thompson’s Creek (October 5, 1864); Woodville (October 5, 1864); Expedition to Brookhaven (November 14-21, 1864); Liberty [skirmish] (November 18, 1864); Franklin (January 2, 1865)
From Bergeron, La. Confed. Units, 53:
"This unit was organized in June, 1864, probably at Clinton, by the joining and mounting of fragments of infantry units serving in the area. Colonel John S. Scott, commanding the area, had requested formation of the regiment as support for his artillery batteries operating along the Mississippi River. Some records erroneously refer to the unit as the 5th Louisiana Cavalry. The men participated in a skirmish at Doyal’s Plantation below Baton Rouge on August 5, 1864. With Powers’ Regiment, Gober’s men helped drive an enemy force from Thompson’s Creek near Jackson to St. Francisville on October 5. Later in the day, the two regiments moved toward Woodville, Mississippi, to intercept another enemy raid. On the morning of October 6, the enemy attacked them and drove them back. Toward the end of October, the six Louisiana companies serving in Powers’ Regiment, which was disbanded, received orders to report to Gober to give him a full regiment. During a Federal raid on Liberty, Mississippi, portions of the regiment fought in skirmishes at Merritt’s Plantation, November 15, and at Liberty, November 18. As part of Scott’s cavalry brigade, the regiment followed an enemy raiding party from Baton Rouge to Pascagoula, Mississippi, in early December. After a short rest near Mobile, Alabama, the brigade moved to northern Mississippi. A small portion of the regiment fought in a skirmish at Franklin, Mississippi, on January 2, 1865. In late December, 1864, or January, 1865, the five companies that had originally composed part of the 18th Louisiana Cavalry Battalion were ordered back into that organization. Gober soon assumed command of Scott’s brigade, and the remaining companies of the regiment became part of Colonel Fred N. Ogden’s new cavalry regiment."
ROSTER
Company C [formerly members of Miles' Legion Infantry] (Nolan's)
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SMITH, Thompson. Pvt. // CSRC, Index.
1 Co. C, Gober's Mtd. Inf.
Individuals from non-Cajun families, CSRC Index
Company D [formerly Company A, 9th Battalion Infantry; and Company H, 27th Regiment Infantry] (Brown’s)
East Baton Rouge
(See Company A, 9th Battalion Infantry for individual records)
Company I (Daigre’s)
Ascension/East Baton Rouge/Livingston
DAIGLE [Daigre, Daigro], Henry L. CPT. // Bergeron, La. Confed. Units, 53. // Served also in Companies G & I, 18th Battalion Cavalry; & Company I, Power’s Regiment Cavalry.
1 Co. I, Gober's Mtd. Inf.
Individuals from non-Cajun families, CSRC Index
*ALLAIN, E. J. Pvt. Not in CSRC. No enlistment information nor on any rolls of his unit in Booth. Recorded only on U.S. POW roll transferred to Ship Island, MS, from New Orleans, 5 Oct 1864, probably as a member of Gober's Regiment Mounted Infantry, no place of capture given. // Ancestry.com, Civil War Rolls: D. J. ALLAIN, E. J. ALLAIN, David J. Allen; places him in this regiment. Booth, La. Confed. Soldiers, 1:43: E. J. ALLAIN. // Served also in Company B, Ogden's Regiment Cavalry. Same as D. J. ALLAIN in 9th Battalion Infantry?
1 ?, Gober's Mtd. Inf.
Individuals from non-Cajun families, CSRC Index
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