31st Regiment, Louisiana Infantry

31st Infantry Regiment [including Morrison's 6th Louisiana Infantry Battalion] was organized at Vicksburg, Mississippi, during the early summer of 1862. Assigned to General Baldwin's Brigade, Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, the unit lost 9 killed and 16 wounded at Chickasaw Bluff and was captured defending Vicksburg. After being exchanged, it was placed in A. Thomas' Brigade, Trans-Mississippi Department, and fought in various conflicts in Louisiana. During the spring of 1865 it disbanded. The field officers were Colonel Charles H. Morrison, Lieutenant Colonel Sidney H.. Griffin, and Majors James W. Draughon and Thomas C. Humble.

Leander Mewhiney/ Mowhiney (and now McWhiney):
Company D, 31st LA inf roll July and Aug 1862, En. Vidalia, La., April 26, 1862. Present.
He supposedly died on November 19, 1862 near Jackson, MS.

Wiggins, Daniel,Pvt. Co. D, 31st La. Inf. En. Vidalia, La., April 26, 1862. Present on all Rolls to Dec., 1862. Roll of Prisoners of War, of detachment of different commands, C. S. A., Paroled Alexandria, La., June 26, 1865. Res. Catahoula Par., La. WILSON M V PVT 31ST LA INF C received a field parole after the capture of Vicksburg abt 4 Jul 1863 Born in East Feliciana Parish, LA, age 35, a farmer, enlisted 14 May 1862 at Delphi, Carrol Par, La. Captured at VicksburgMorton (Martin) V. Wilson: was listed as a private in Company C, 31st Regiment Louisiana Infantry. He enlisted in DELHI, Louisiana on 14 May 1862. He was apparently present for duty through February 1863, the last extant muster roll for this regiment. He was captured at Vicksburg and paroled on 10 July 1863. His service record has no further information. He may have returned to service the next summer, in June 1864, when the regiment reformed at Minden and then later at Pineville, as there are no complete rolls for this regiment after the surrender at Vicksburg. Wilson, M. B., Pvt. Co. F, 31st La. Inf. En. Trinity, La., Feb. 6, 1863. Remarks: Present. Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War, Captured and paroled at Vicksburg, Miss., July 4, 1863. Roll of Prisoners of War of detachments of different commands, C. S. A., Paroled Alexandria, La., June 26, 1865. Res. Catahoula Par., La. Wiggins, H. J.,Pvt. Co. B, 13th Battn. La. (Partisan Rangers). En. July 20, 1862, Floyd, La. Roll for Nov. and Dec., 1862, Present. Roll for Dec. 31, 1862, to April 30, 1863, Present.