"Confederate mounted infantry" Topic

How many permanent brigades of mounted infatry fought in confederate army ?
So far I tracked Jenkins'(in ANV) and Crossland's Kentuckians in Forrest's Corps.
Do we know more ?

There were at least two Virginia mounted infantry regiments in Confederate service. The 62nd formed the basis of Imboden's cavalry brigade which served in western Virginia and in the Gettysburg campaign. The other served in southwestern Virginia and part of it was captured at Cumberland Gap.

Iirc (it's been 45 years) Stuart's/Hampton's corps had at least one brigade with Enfields. I don't know if they were CALLED mounted infantry but that is how they were employed tactically.

It depends what you mean by mounted infantry. There's a mounted role of being mounted infantry, and an organizational fact of being a mounted Infantry Regiment.

As to the former, Forrest's cavalry largely operated as mounted infantry throughout the war – ie, fighting in an infantry role most of the time, but using horses to get places quicker. (Compare Hampton's area control and holding action tactics which match a dragoon role, and Stuart's regular true cavalry role of scouting and even very occasionally mounted charges).

As to the latter, some Arkansas infantry functioned as mounted infantry in the Trans-Mississippi at the end of the war; various infantry had been mounted during Price's Raid; the other Kentucky infantry brigade, the Orphan Brigade, was mounted in 1864 under Lewis' command, first opposing the March to the Sea, and then defending South Carolina during the Carolinas Campaign (it stayed in S.C. whilst Johnston fought in N.C.). There were also the 62nd and 64th Virginia Mounted Infantry Regiments, which fought under Imboden and Grumble Jones respectively; the 62nd ended up with Lomax's division with Early at the end of the war, the 64th was in Western Virginia/East Tennessee.

Hope that helps!

The brigade doc mcb refers to was Robertson's. Two North Carolina regiments that had both cavalry and infantry numbers, armed with Enfield rifles (4th and 5ath Cavalry -- can't at the moment, locate their numbers as infantry). They were added to Stuart's division after Chancellorsville and were one of two brigades he left behind when he moved around the AoP to reach Pennsylvania (the other was Grumble Jones's).

Don, you're bang on about the NC Cavalry – though they were never, so far as I know, actually infantry. N.C. just had an eccentric "state regiment" system which meant all the cavalry regiments had another number, which (so far as I know) no other state emulated. So Robertson's brigade may well have been rifle armed and fought as mounted infantry (the former is possible, the latter is nigh on certain) – but not because they were literally Mounted Infantry…at least to my knowledge!

Not in name, true. But for all practical purposes …

Technically, Jenkins' brigade was not "infantry" either, just fought that way.

Indeed!