1st Mississippi Partisan Rangers

1st Mississippi Partisan Rangers
Active1862-1865
Country Confederate States of America
Allegiance Mississippi
Branch Confederate States Army
TypePartisan Rangers
Cavalry
SizeRegiment
Nickname(s)"Falkner's Regiment"
BattlesAmerican Civil War
Commanders
Notable
commanders
William Clark Falkner

The 1st Mississippi Partisan Rangers was a unit of the Confederate Army from Mississippi. The 1st Partisans operated as a cavalry regiment in North Mississippi and Tennessee, but suffered serious setbacks in late 1862 that compromised its effectiveness as a unit. Reorganized as the 7th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment in 1864, the regiment surrendered at the close of the war in May, 1865.