1st Battalion State Troops Cavalry (Dunn’s),

aka Dunn’s Battalion Rangers

(from Dunbar Rowland’s “Military History of Mississippi, 1803-1898”; company listing courtesy of H. Grady Howell’s “For Dixie Land, I’ll Take My Stand’)

Company A -- Mississippi Rangers (county of origin not specified)
Company B -- Pettus Partisans (county of origin not specified)  

                April 18, 1863, Gen. J.Z. George ordered by the Governor to organize the  State cavalry in Chalmers’ district, and order Captains Prince, Forrest, and Dunn, with their commands, to report to him at Panola.  Battalion assigned by Chalmers in May to brigade of State troops under General George.