3rd Mississippi Infantry Co. B - Sunflower Dispersers Original Artwork
3rd Mississippi Infantry Company B
The Sunflower Dispersers
American Civil War
by Mark Maritato
Status: Available
Watercolor and Gouache on Bristol
Signed and dated by the Artist
11in w x 14 in h
Unframed
Depicted here is a soldier of Company B of the 3rd Mississippi Infantry: known as the “Sunflower Dispersers.” At the outbreak of the Civil War, there was an astounding range of variation in uniforms in the southern armies. Typically, regiments were composed of ten companies of 100 men each, and because many companies were recruited from different towns or regions within a particular state: they would adopt their own distinctive uniform designs and give their company a distinctive nickname such as, “The Biloxi Rifles,” or “Yazoo Rifles,” or “McWillie Blues” etc. So it was not uncommon to see in some cases, ten different uniforms styles compiled into one regiment. Such was the case with Company B. of the 3rd Mississippi Infantry, who adopted a grey wool shirt trimmed in Red that was decorated with a sunflower plastron on the right breast and either metal or bone buttons. The 3rd Mississippi Regiment would go on to fight in the Vicksburg; Atlanta,Franklin and Nashville and the Carolinas Campaigns.
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