missisippi rifles riley Buena Vista,
Ken Riley, Buena Vista, Mexico, February 23, 1847 Showing the charge of the 1st Mississippi Rifles under then-Col. Jefferson Davis. Wearing thier characteristic red shirts and straw hats, these men were equipped with 1841 pattern musket rifles and bowie knives. They saved Zach Taylor’s bacon that day and are still remembered in the lineage of the Mississipi Army National Guard http://www.mississippirifles.com/unit/about. From the collection of the U.S. Army National Guard.