The Eleventh Mississippi, one of the first regiments formed in Mississippi as a part of the Confederate Army, was composed of volunteers fron the older and more developed counties of North Mississippi.
The Greys were students in the university and therefore were rather widely drawn from the state. The average age of the members was a little over twenty years. Only one was married - James O'Grady who was one of the number not University students who enlisted with them at Oxford, Mississippi. The Military Board had adopted as uniform for Mississippi trops: "Gray frock coat and trousers, with red trimmings for infantry, hat of black felt, looped up on three sides with horse-hair pompons for men and plumes for officers."
The Company left Oxford for Corinth, Mississippi on May 1, 1861. At Corinth, on May 4, 1861, the University Greys became Company A of the Eleventh Mississippi Regiment of Volunteer Infantry under the command of Colonel William H. Moore, Lieutenant Colonel Philip Frank Liddell and Major S. F. Butler.
From Corinth the Regiment was sent to Lynchburg, Virginia, where it was mustered into the provisional army of the the Confederate States on May 13th.

COMPANY "A" OFFICERS

William Benjamin Lowry, - Captain
Calvin Breckenridge McCaleb, - First-Lieutenant
Levins Mathewson Bisland, - Second-Lieutenant
William Augustus Raines, - Third-Lieutenant

BRIEF REGIMENTAL HISTORY