The Camp takes it name from the hard-fighting cavalry regiment of the 9th Mississippi Cavalry. The 9th was consolidated from the 17th Battalion Mississippi Cavalry, also known as Steede's Battalion of Mounted Partisan Rangers and also Lovell's Rangers. This battalion saw action in and around Jackson and Vicksburg. It was consolidated with Sander's Tennessee Battalion, under the command of Col. Horace H. Miller, formerly of the Twentieth Infantry, which was mounted during the Vicksburg campaign. The Ninth Regiment was in camp at Madison Station, February, 1864, and a portion was sent by Gen. S. W. Ferguson on a reconnaissance toward Jackson, where Sherman's army was passing through to Meridian, "which duty was promptly and efficiently accomplished," said Ferguson. "This command did not rejoin me until February 14." The regiment is not enumerated in the organization of Gen. S.D. Lee's Cavalry Corps, February 20. It is listed Ninth Mississippi, Col. Horace H. Miller, in Ferguson's Brigade, Jackson's Cavalry, Army of Mississippi, in the Atlanta campaign. The regiment is mentioned as on the picket line near Kenesaw Mountain, June 26, 1864. In September it is listed in Ferguson's Brigade with Eleventh and Twelfth Mississippi, and Second and Fifty-sixth Alabama. Ferguson's Brigade, in the fall of 1864. It was transferred to Gen. Joseph Wheeler's Cavalry and was in Wheeler's battles during Sherman's march to Savannah and siege of that city. (See Twelfth Battalion.) January 31, 1865, Capt. Benjamin Stevens commanding, in Ferguson's Brigade, Iverson's Division, Wheeler's Cavalry.A portion of the regiment was in the Mississippi district in March, 1865, and was assigned to the command of Col. W. B. Wade, in Forrest's Cavalry. March 15, all officers and men of Ferguson's Brigade, including Col. H. H. Miller's Regiment, now rendezvousing at Shubuta, ordered to report to Maj .-Gen. W. T. Martin at Carthage, Ala. "Colonel White of the Ninth," and a number of officers and men were reported among the captures of Wilson's troops at Selma, Ala., April 2, 1865. Ferguson's Brigade was part of the escort of President Davis in Georgia, April, 1865.April 9, 1865, Colonel Miller, commanding Ninth, at Coffeeville, Ala., ordered to report at Demopolis. His command was used as scouts at the front toward Mobile, until the capitulation, May 4. The Camp meets the second Tuesday of each month at the Lucedale Library in Lucedale, MS.