Officers in the Confederate Army
From Tippah County
By Andrew Brown
The Tippah County of 1861-1865, which included in addition to the present
county more than half of Benton County, the northern six miles of Union
County, and the western part of Alcorn County, contained in 1860 a total
of 22,550 inhabitants, of whom 16,206 were white and 6,344 were colored.
From the white residents at least 30 companies averaging 70 to 80 men each
were formed for Confederate service; the original organizations thus contained
from 2,100 to 2,400 men. Taking into consideration men who enlisted after
the companies were organized, and men who joined companies not composed
predominantly of men from Tippah, the county in all probability contributed
at least 3,000 men to the service and the total may have been as high as
3500. Because records for many companies are fragmentary or nonexistent,
it probably will never be possible to give a closer estimate.
The list of officers in the Confederate forces who lived in the county
at some time during their lives is much longer than is generally realized.
There were three generals, three full colonels, two lieutenant colonels,
seven majors, and about 40 captains. Brief outlines of the careers of some
of these officers are given below.
The highest-ranking officer associated with the county was Lieutenant General
Nathan Bedford Forrest who, after being underrated for years, is now recognized
as one of the greatest cavalry leaders of all time. The future general
was seventeen years old when his father William Forrest, a blacksmith,
moved from Tennessee to western Tippah (now Benton) County. The Forrests
in all probability lived on the place of Orrin Beck, Mrs. Forrest's brother,
about three miles south of old Salem and four miles southwest of the present
town of Ashland. After William Forrest died in 1837 Bedford, as the oldest
son, assisted his mother in rearing the rest of the family. In 1842 he
moved to Hernando where he embarked on his highly successful business career.
Forrest's name is so generally associated with Memphis that few people
know that he grew to manhood, and shouldered his first heavy responsibilities,
in the original Tippah County. But it was peculiarly fitting that his greatest
victory, Brice Cross Roads, was won largely on Tippah soil. Though the
crossroads themselves were in Pontotoc (now Lee) County about half a mile
south of the Tippah line, the bridge across Tishomingo Creek and the Agnew
place where much heavy fighting took place, and the line of pursuit from
the crossroads to old Salem, were in Tippah County.
The second general officer who spent part of his life in Tippah was Major
General Thomas C. Hindman, who was thirteen years old when his father,
a retired Indian agent, moved to a plantation about a mile east of Ripley
in 184l. The original Hindman home, a typical two-story frame dwelling
of the period, stood on the site of the present residence of J. A. Booker
until January 20, 1938, when it was destroyed by fire. Young Hindman graduated
from the Lawrenceville, New Jersey Classical Institute, studied law at
Ripley, was admitted to the bar, in and in 1852 was elected to the Mississippi
House of Representatives. In 1854 he moved to Helena, Arkansas, where he
built up a large law practice. In 1858 he was elected to Congress, where
he served until Mississippi seceded in 1861.
During the Mexican War Hindman was Second Lieutenant of Company E, Second
Mississippi Infantry. At the outbreak of the Civil War he was instrumental
in organizing the Second Arkansas and was elected its colonel. He was promoted
to Brigadier General on September 18, 1861, and fought at the battle of
Shiloh where he was injured by a fall from his horse. Soon after the battle
he was promoted to Major General and returned to Arkansas, where he speedily
became involved in disagreements with his fellow officers and as a result
recrossed the river and took command of a division in the Army of Tennessee
on September l, 1863. His part in the battle of Chickamauga, about three
weeks after he took command, made him vulnerable to attacks by Bragg who
was desperately in need of a scapegoat; and a short time later Hindman
again returned to Arkansas, where he remained during the remainder of the
war. After the surrender he went to Mexico City where he wrote a number
of military treatises, in Spanish, for the Emperor Maximilian. After the
Emperor's downfall he returned to Helena where on the night of September
27, 1868, he was shot and killed while sitting by a window of his home.
The murderer was never found.
The third General associated with Tippah County was Brigadier General Mark
Perrin Lowrey, who was born December 30, 1828 in McNairy County, Tennessee
and moved at the age of fifteen to Farmington, an extinct town four miles
west of Corinth, Mississippi. He served briefly in the Mexican War as a
private in Company E of the Second Mississippi. He was a bricklayer by
trade but in 1852 decided to enter the Baptist ministry and was ordained
at Farmington in 1853. He devoted the next eight years to religious work
and made a name not only as a preacher but as an editor and writer. Early
in 1861 he organized a regiment of 60-day troops for service in Kentucky,
and when its term of enlistment was out organized, largely from the same
men, the Thirty-Second Mississippi Infantry of which he was elected Colonel.
He was wounded at the battle of Perryville, Kentucky, in the fall of 1862,
and upon being invalided home moved his family from Kossuth, where they
had gone after the battle of Shiloh, to the Brougher place about six miles
southwest of Ripley on the slope of a hill known as Blue Mountain. There
he lived the remainder of his life.
Colonel Lowrey was an excellent officer. His reports are models of clarity
and show that he possessed a grasp of essential detail somewhat like that
of Forrest; and the numerous references to him in the Official Records
by his fellow officers show that he possessed their confidence to a marked
degree. At the battle of Chickamauga on September 19 and 20, 1863 he commanded
a brigade of Cleburne's division of D. H. Hill's Corps and was promoted
to Brigadier General immediately after the battle. In his report the combative,
hypercritical Hill wrote: "Col. M. P. Lowrey has been deservedly promoted,
and a worthier object of advancement could not have been selected. Coming
as it did from Hill, that one sentence is sufficient testimony to both
Lowrey's ability as a commander and his personal courage.
After his promotion General Lowrey occasionally exercised divisional command,
particularly in the Nashville campaign of late 1864. After the Confederate
defeat at Nashville and retreat to Tupelo, on March 14, 1865 he resigned
his commission and returned to his home at Blue Mountain and his pastorates
in Tippah and adjacent counties. His war record, no less than his achievements
in other fields, marks him as a most exceptional man. Yet it is a strange
fact that although his name is still revered among Southern Baptists as
one of their outstanding ministers, his true stature as a soldier, a preacher,
and an educator has never been fully recognized.
Tippah County supplied three colonels to the Confederate service: William
C. Falkner and Thomas J. Davidson of Ripley, and Daniel B. Wright of Salem.
Falkner, the first to attain the rank, was born in Missouri in 1825 and
came to Ripley about 1842, later becoming associated with his uncle John
W. Thompson in the practice of law. During the War with Mexico he was First
Lieutenant of Company E, Second Mississippi Infantry, being mustered into
service December 1, 1846 and resigning October 31, 1847. The Second Mississippi
went to Mexico but was not engaged in the actual fighting. In the late
1850's Falkner was one of the six brigadier generals of the Mississippi
militia; still later, when it was apparent that war was only a question
of time, he was captain of the Magnolia Rifles, one of the four volunteer
military companies that were active in Tippah County. In May 1861 three
of the Tippah companies were incorporated into the Second Mississippi Infantry
at Corinth, and Falkner was elected colonel of the regiment. The Second
went immediately to Virginia and after serving in the Shenandoah Valley
was moved to Manassas in time to take part in the first battle there in
July. It was one of the regiments that held back the Federal attack until
Stonewall Jackson's forces could be brought up, after which it formed behind
Jackson and later joined in the last charge of the battle. In his report
General Joseph E. Johnston listed Falkner as one of eleven colonels whose
conduct he considered especially commendable; Beauregard, to whom has been
attributed a glowing tribute to Falkner, does not mention him. In later
years Falkner partisans made such exaggerated and easily disproved claims
about his part in the battle that it is somewhat surprising that they never
quoted the highest tribute paid him in the Official Records. This was the
report of Colonel J. E. B. Stuart, whose cavalry charge broke the last
Federal resistance; Stuart wrote that "Joining in the attack was Falkner's
regiments (Mississippians) whose gallantry came under my personal observation".
In brief, the fact is that the parts of Falkner and his regiment in the
battle were entirely creditable.
The Second Mississippi spent the winter of 1861-62 near Dumfries, Virginia,
at or near the site of the present Quantico Marine base. In January 1862
the Confederate Congress passed a law reorganizing the army and including
a provision that organizations which re-enlisted for the duration of the
war would be permitted to hold a new election of officers. Falkner early
realized that under this provision his chances of re-election were not
good, and made an unsuccessful effort to be promoted to brigadier general.
At the election in April he was defeated by John M. Stone of Iuka, who
was in later years Governor. Falkner was bitter about his defeat, which
he blamed on "a combination of demagogues against me" and on the strict
discipline he maintained; but the fact seems to be that although he had
gained the reputation of being something of a martinet and there was some
resentment against him on that ground, the real reason for his defeat was
the very simple one that the Tishomingo County element in the regiment
had more votes than the Tippah contingent.
Falkner returned to Mississippi in May 1862. Before he reached home, the
Congress had passed the first Conscription Law to be enacted on the American
continent, and a few days later enacted a law authorizing the enlistment
of Partisan hangers. The Rangers were differentiated from regular troops
by the provision that they were to be paid in cash for any supplies and
military equipment captured from the enemy - an feature which made them
in effect dry-land privateers and put the Confederate government dangerously
close to giving open encouragement to guerrilla warfare. A feeble effort
to safeguard the program was the section stating that authority to form
Ranger companies or larger units must be given by the President; and it
was ruled immediately that the President would act only upon the recommendation
of the officer commanding the District in which the Rangers were to serve.
In Mississippi this responsible officer was General C. T. Beauregard until
about the middle of June, General Braxton Bragg afterward.
Early in July Falkner began the enlistment of a regiment of Partisan Rangers,
that form of service being chosen because it was much more attractive to
most people than the regular army and it was easier to raise a regiment
of Rangers than a battalion of regulars. Authority to organize was obtained
from General Sterling Price - a fatal mistake as it turned out, for Price
had no authority to grant the permission. By the end of the month Falkner
had about 750 men - an average-sized Confederate regiment for the time
- and after evading a Federal attempt to capture the men, mustered them
into service as the First Mississippi Partisan Rangers, a name they bore
until May 1864 when the designation was changed to the Seventh Mississippi
Cavalry. During August the new regiment made an unsuccessful attack on
the Federal outpost at Rienzi; during September it acted as a flanker during
Price's advance on Iuka, engaging in a fight at Peytons Mill, near the
present town of Paden, Tishomingo County. In October it cut the railroad
north of Corinth during the Confederate attack on that town. It appeared
to improve with each encounter and was on the way to becoming an effective
unit when, about the middle of November, the Conscription Bureau suddenly
swooped down on it and the men scattered to the four winds.
The reasons for the actions of the Conscript officers were three. First
was the bad reputation of the Partisan Rangers in general; North Mississippi
was filled with Ranger companies, many of which had been formed with no
objective beyond evading the draft and getting a captain's commission for
the organizer. A second reason was that under the interpretation of the
law used by the Bureau, all men in the Ranger companies who were of conscription
age were liable to arrest; and the third excuse was that General Price,
who had recommended that authority be granted to organize the regiment,
was not empowered to do so.
As to the first reason, it need only be pointed out that although Falkner
did organize his men as Rangers, he nevertheless included them in the regular
army, discouraged guerrilla activity, and in general taught them to act
as, and to think of themselves as regular soldiers. His was the only Ranger
regiment in Mississippi that was organized as such; the other such groups
were formed later after much trouble, from scattered companies. It is greatly
to Falkner's credit that within a few months he built from the ground up
a unit that in two of its three encounters with the enemy had fought effectively,
and that was improving steadily. That he was technically in the wrong,
both as to the presence of men subject to conscription in his ranks, and
as to Price's authorization, there can be no doubt; but he was doing a
good job and the action of the Conscription Bureau in breaking up the organization
can be described most kindly as serious blunder. It broke up a promising
regiment, and at the same time did not get the recruits it broke it up
to obtain. There were too many good hiding places in the Hatchie Hills
for the Rangers to permit themselves to be caught.
Early in 1863 Falkner enlisted the aid of his Congressman, J. W. Clapp
of Holly Springs, and late in February obtained authority from the Secretary
of War to reorganize his regiment as a regular Confederate army unit, and
to include all men subject to conscription in the original group who had
not in the meantime joined other organizations. On March 17 he reported
with about 500 men to Brigadier General James R. Chalmers, commanding in
the ten northern counties of Mississippi.
Chalmers, a fellow-attorney who had been Prosecuting Attorney of the district
of which Tippah was a part when the war broke out, placed Falkner in command
of a small brigade and posted him on the Memphis-Hernando road in DeSoto
County with orders to stop and confiscate all goods coming from Memphis
into the Confederate lines, and all cotton going into Memphis; in other
words, his mission was to break up the growing trade with Memphis. His
first brush with the enemy in this area was successful, and the Federals
were chased to Nonconnah Creek, only five miles from Memphis. But on April
18 the Ranger camp north of Hernando was attacked by the Twelfth Wisconsin
Cavalry and after a short but bitter fight was driven back to the Coldwater
River with a loss of about 40 men killed and 72, including seven officers,
captured. Two companies were practically annihilated, and 70 stand of arms
and a large quantity of confiscated supplies were captured by the bluecoats.
The Union losses, given as 20 killed and 40 to 50 wounded, show that the
Rangers put up a terrific fight before being driven from the field.
Falkner made no report of the skirmish near Hernando, and Chalmers and
the Federal officer commanding made only brief ones. But whatever the reason
for his defeat, and whether or not he was censurable, it came as a crushing
blow to Falkner and he was never the same man afterward so far as military
service was concerned. He went on sick leave in late April and his regiment
scattered; he was not actively in command again except for a short time
in June when with 200 men he participated in the pursuit of a Federal force
from New Albany to Ripley. He made an unsuccessful attempt to have his
regiment placed on detached service, and in October, finding himself caught
between the upper and nether millstones of the insistence of Generals Chalmers
and Stephen D. Lee (then commanding the cavalry in Mississippi) that he
bring his regiment back into the regular organization, and his own inability
to gather more than a fraction of his former force, he sent in his resignation
to be effective October 31, 1863, on the ground of ill health. So far as
the records show he never participated again in the fighting, and nothing
is known of his whereabouts between the date of his resignation and July
1865, when it is known that he was back in Tippah County.
The second Tippah County colonel, Thomas J. Davidson, was one Ripley's
more prominent citizens before the war, although unfortunately there is
little information about him. When the original Ripley Female Academy was
organized in 1849 he was elected one of the trustees, and donated a block
of land as the site of the school; this is the block on which the present
High School stands. In 1856 he built the courthouse at Aberdeen, which
is still in use. After the outbreak of the Civil War he was elected colonel
of a regiment composed of six companies from Tippah County, three from
Tishomingo, and one from Pontotoc; this organization, organized September
5, 1861, at Iuka, was known originally as the Second Mississippi, then
as the Third, and finally as the Twenty-third. During the fall and winter
of 1861 it was stationed in Tennessee and Kentucky where it suffered severely
from disease. In February it was sent to Fort Donelson and was included
in the surrender there on February 16. For a few days prior to the surrender
Davidson served as brigade commander, until he was incapacitated by illness.
He was sent to Fort Warren, in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts where he died
on April 29 at the age of 41. His body was sent under a flag of truce to
Richmond, and is buried in the Confederate officer's section of Hollywood
Cemetery in that city. His grave is not marked but can be located accurately
from the boundary stones of the section and the description in the cemetery's
records. As Colonel Davidson was a highly regarded citizen of Tippah County
and was the highest ranking officer from the county to lose his life during
the conflict, it would be most fitting if some organization in the county
would see that his burial place is fittingly marked.
The third Tippah colonel was Daniel B. Wright of Salem, a prominent attorney
of Salem who was a member of the Federal Congress from 1853 to 1857 and
who was one of the signers of the Mississippi Ordinance of Secession. Although
he was 49 years old at the outbreak of the war, Wright enlisted in the
34th Mississippi and was elected its lieutenant colonel. At the battle
of Perryville, Kentucky in September 1862 he was wounded and captured,
but was exchanged on April 2, 1863. His wound never healed properly, however,
and on June 24 of the same year he resigned his commission. After General
Forrest moved into Mississippi late in 1863 Wright was recommended to him
as a suitable person for Judge of Military Courts and he was appointed
to that position with the rank of Colonel of Cavalry on April 14, 1864.
He served until May 18, 1865, when he surrendered at Lagrange, Tennessee.
He lived in Tippah (now Benton) County until his death on December 27,
1887, and is buried in the McDonald cemetery near Ashland.
The lieutenant colonels from Tippah were Lawson B. Hovis and Moses McCarley.
Hovis was appointed Adjutant of the Second Mississippi at its organization
in May 1861 and served in that capacity until the reorganization in April
1862. He then returned to Tippah County, assisted in the organization of
the First Partisan Rangers and was elected captain of Company B of that
unit. On September 2, 1862, he was made Lieutenant Colonel; previous to
that time, however, he had led a detachment of three companies that surprised
the Union pickets near Rienzi and drove them back on the main body while
Falkner, with seven companies, charged the Federals from the front. On
January 29, 1863, after the regiment had been scattered by the Conscription
Bureau, Hovis was captured at Ripley. He was exchanged about the first
of June and returned to duty about August 10; and when it became apparent
that Falkner would not return to duty, Hovis began to reassemble the scattered
units of the regiment. By the first of October he had brought together
about 300 to 350 of them - a considerably larger number than had been in
service at any time since the Hernando fight - and reported to Brigadier
General Chalmers at Salem, where they repulsed a Federal attack . On October
11, when Chalmers attacked Collierville, the Rangers drove the Union troops
through the town and into a fortified camp at its west edge, capturing
or destroying much property. Although Hovis did not know it, his attack
was witnessed by the Union General Sherman, who happened to be passing
through and was very sarcastic in his report of the way the Confederates
drove his men.
On November 3 Chalmers again attacked Collierville, this time unsuccessfully,
and Hovis covered the retreat across the Coldwater River. On December 4,
as part of the movement by General Stephen D. Lee that opened the way for
Forrest's invasion of Tennessee, Chalmers attacked Moscow and decisively
defeated two Federal cavalry regiments. Hovis was in the thick of the Moscow
fight and was severely wounded. He was taken to his home in Ripley where
he died on March 26, 1864.
Hovis achievement in assembling the Rangers in the fall of 1863 and welding
them into an efficient fighting unit was truly outstanding, and the quality
of his leadership in the field is evidenced by the fact that while he commanded
the Rangers his superior officers had only praise for the fighting qualities
of the regiment - the first time since the fall of 1862 that such had been
the case.
The first military position held by Moses McCarley was captain of the Tippah
Riflemen, later Company G of the ill-starred 23rd Mississippi. Being on
sick leave at the time, McCarley was not captured at Fort Donelson; and
in September 1862 when the 23rd was exchanged and reorganized he was made
Lieutenant Colonel. He commanded the regiment at the battle of Coffeeville
on December 5 and was credited by the commanding general for much of the
victory. He then served in central Mississippi until he went home on sick
leave on June 15, 1863, only to be captured near Ripley on June 18. He
was sent to Johnson's Island, the huge Federal prisoner-of-war camp in
Lake Erie near Sandusky, Ohio, and remained there until his exchange on
February 25, 1865. After the war McCarley served as Sheriff of Tippah County.
Of the seven majors in the Confederate army who made their homes in Tippah
County, the best known, especially while the fighting was going on, was
Solomon G. Street, usually known simply as Sol Street. Street was 30 years
old and a carpenter by trade when he enlisted on March 4, 1861 in the Magnolia
Rifles, later Company F of the Second Mississippi. He was made Third Sergeant
May 10 and remained with the regiment until July 31, 1862, when under the
provisions of the Confederate laws he provided a substitute and was discharged.
Returning to Mississippi he obtained authority from the Governor to organize
a company of cavalry for State service and on December 15 was commissioned
as Captain of "The Citizen Guards", Company A of the Second Mississippi
Cavalry. He never served, however with the Second Cavalry; according to
his own statement he was "detached for service along the M. & C. Railroad"
(now the Southern), and began a career of making life miserable for the
Union troops guarding that much-disputed line.
No muster rolls of Street's "irregular" or "guerrilla" company have been
preserved, and it is doubtful if any were ever made. In 1894 survivors
made up a list of 69 officers and men who served at one time or another;
of these seven were killed in action. According to survivors the largest
number who were ever participated in any one raid was not more than 30,
and ordinarily there were only about ten of fifteen. These small striking
bodies were almost continually active from January through August in 1863,
harassing the numerous Union raiding parties in every way possible. Normally
they operated in the northern half of Tippah County but on at least one
occasion they went into Tennessee and captured a railroad train. That they
did a tremendous amount of damage to the Federal forces, considering their
small numbers, is proved by the Federal reports themselves.
Street's raiding career in Mississippi ended in August 1863, when General
Stephen D. Lee, who was attempting to form the numerous irregular companies
in the state into larger units, ordered the "Citizen Guards" to report
to New Albany for incorporation into the regular army. Street, who had
been strikingly successful in fighting according to his own rules, ignored
the order but soon saw the handwriting on the wall and rather than join
Lee resigned and moved a few miles north into Tennessee. There Lee had
no jurisdiction and Street continued to operate as in the past. On February
15, 1864, when Forrest combined several small Tennessee organizations into
the 15th Tennessee Cavalry, he made Street Major. After a career in west
Tennessee much like that in Mississippi, and during which he was captured
once but escaped, Street was killed in Hardeman County on May 4, 1864.
Of the other Majors, John H. Buchanan of Ripley served as a private in
the War with Mexico and during the Civil War was captain of the "O'Conner
Rifles", later Company B of the Second Mississippi. At the battle of Gettysburg
on July 3, 1863 he was captured and sent to Johnson's Island, but was exchanged
on March 3, 1864. He was then promoted to Major with rank from the date
of the battle. On August 18 he was wounded in one of the battles in the
Wilderness and on August 20, in a hospital at Richmond, the little finger
of his left hand was amputated. He was furloughed home and was elected
Sheriff of Tippah County, resigning October 21 to accept that office.
William G. Pegram of Company A, 34th Mississippi, was appointed Major on
September 2, 1862 but because of the reverence for seniority that plagued
the Confederate Army at that stage of the war was not confirmed until February
16, 1864, with rank to date from February 28, 1863. At the battle of Chickamauga
on September 19 and 20, 1863, Pegram received a gunshot wound through the
body and after spending much time in hospitals without making much improvement,
resigned February 25, 1864. In later years he entered politics and served
in the Mississippi Legislature, where he was noted for his tall, spare
physique and his sardonic humor.
George W. B. Garrett was one of the youngest Majors in the Confederate
service. He was 21 years old when he enlisted on August 24, 1861 and was
elected Second Lieutenant of Company C of the 23rd Mississippi. On November
18 of the same year he was promoted to Captain, and on February 16, 1862
was captured at Fort Donelson. He was exchanged on September l, and when
the regiment was reorganized was made Major. For the last year of the war
he commanded the regiment, the Colonel Wells having resigned and Lieutenant
Colonel McCarley having been captured. On December 15, 1864, Garrett was
again captured near Nashville and was kept at Johnson's Island until he
was paroled on July 25, 1865. After the war he moved to Corinth, where
became one of Alcorn County's leading citizens.
During its checkered career the First Mississippi Partisan Rangers, later
the Seventh Mississippi Cavalry, had three Majors. The first was William
L. Davis, who succeeded Colonel Falkner as Captain of Company F of the
Second Mississippi but resigned because of ill health on November 28, 1861.
In August 1862 he was elected Captain of Company A of the Rangers and on
September 15 was promoted to Major. He resigned November 15, 1862, when
the Conscription Bureau broke up the regiment. At reorganization, on March
28, 1863, Captain John Park of Company H was made Major and served until
May 14, 1864, when he was placed on detached service, and was succeeded
by William Nelson Stansell, usually known simply as Willis Stansell.
Stansell was bom in the Abbeville district, South Carolina. He was 28 years
old and a printer by trade when he enlisted on April 12, 1861 in the First
Mississippi Cavalry at Prentiss, Bolivar County. After serving more than
a year with that regiment and participating in the battles of Belmont and
Shiloh he transferred to the Rangers in August 1862 and was elected Captain
of Company G, the "Buncombe Fighting Cocks". At the reorganization in March
1863 he was made captain of Company E, formed by combining the original
companies E and G. He was severely wounded in a skirmish at Salem on October
8, 1863 and upon his return to duty in February 1864 commanded the remnants
of the regiment until May 4, when Lieutenant Colonel Hyams of Missouri
assumed command and appointed him Major. Like many other promotions in
1864 and 1865 Stansell's failed to clear the Richmond red tape and although
he acted as Major he was never formally commissioned. When he surrendered
at Columbus on May 16, 1865, he was still officially a captain.
The list of captains who lived in Tippah County, or who commanded companies
composed predominantly of Tippah County residents, is a long one. That
given below is taken from Rowland's "Military History of Mississippi" and
from muster rolls, rosters, and service records in the National Archives
at Washington. It embodies the best information available at present but
unquestionably contains some errors, some of which could be corrected through
painstaking research, many of which can never, at this late date be cleared
up. Excluding those already mentioned under higher ranks, the Tippah captains
were:
W. D. Beck Co. D, Second Mississippi Infantry
C. G. Blount Co. A, 23rd Mississippi Infantry
Robert M. Brandon Co. D, Second Mississippi Infantry
H. T. Counseille Co. B, First Partisan Rangers
B. W. Dickson Co. C, First Partisan Rangers
Nathan L. Dozier Co. C, 23rd Mississippi Infantry
W. L. Duncan Co. F, First Partisan Rangers
Thos. Ford Co. A, First Partisan Rangers
John Garrett Co. G, First Partisan Rangers
W. M. Garrett Co. F, First Partisan Rangers
Andrew J. Gibson Co. A, 34th Mississippi Infantry
Forney Green Co. C, First Partisan Rangers
J. K. Guyton Co. E, First Partisan Rangers
J. G. Hamer Co. H, 19th Mississippi Infantry
Joshua L. Henson Co. L and Co. E, Second Mississippi Infantry
John J. Hicks Co. D, Second Mississippi Infantry
R. I. Hill Co. B, 23rd Mississippi Infantry
Philip Holcombe Co. C, 23rd Mississippi Infantry and
T. S. Hubbard Co. G, 34th Mississippi Infantry
J. B. Huddleston Co. C, 34th Mississippi Infantry
R. R. Knight Co. K, 23rd Mississippi Infantry
Benjamin Lax Co. K, 34th Mississippi Infantry
W. W. McDowell Co. E, Ballentine's Cavalry Regiment
J. H. McKinza Co. H, 19th Mississippi Infantry
Larkin McKinza Co. I, First Partisan Rangers
P. M. Marmon Co. D, First Partisan Rangers
W. W. Weauldin Co. A, Second Mississippi Cavalry
Michael Mauney Co. D, First Partisan Rangers
Jno. Y. Murry Co. A, 34th Mississippi Infantry
J. E. Rogers Quartermaster, First Partisan Rangers
John D. Rogers Co. E, First Partisan Rangers
A. C. Rucker Co. B, 34th Mississippi Infantry
J. M. Scally Co. E, 32nd Mississippi Infantry
Robert Storey Co. L, Second Mississippi Infantry
Thomas Spight Co. B, 34th Mississippi Infantry
R. J. Thurmond Co. A, Eleventh Mississippi Cavalry
J. B. Wall Co. H, 19th Mississippi Infantry
E. M. Wells Co. H, 23rd Mississippi Infantry
Charles N. Wheeler Co. H, First Partisan Rangers
Absalom White Co. D, First Partisan Rangers
G. A. Woods Co. H, 34th Mississippi Infantry
William Young Co. I, First Partisan Rangers
Although some of the captains listed
above were well known in Tippah County before and after the war, entirely
too little is known about the careers of some of them. It is to be hoped
that such information as is available can be assembled before the last
links of the present with the past are broken when the record of their
lives and service to the Confederacy will be lost.
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