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John S. Mosby

Colonel John Singleton Mosby, son of Alfred D. Mosby. of Amherst county, was born December 6, 1833, at Edgemont, Powhatan county, the residence of his maternal grandfather, Rev. McLaurin. At the age of sixteen years, he entered the University of…

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The Angel Of Marye’s Heights

Richard Rowland Kirkland was just 17 years old when he enlisted as a private in the Camden Volunteers under the command of his friend and neighbor, Captain John D. Kennedy on April 9, 1861. Later the Camden Volunteers became Company E, 2nd Regiment South Carolina Volunteer Infantry under the command of Colonel Joseph B. Kershaw, a prominent attorney, and neighbor
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Friends Till The Very End.

Enlisting in the Palo Alto Confederates in 1861 from his home in Palo Alto, Mississippi, at the age of fifteen, Andrew Martin Chandler was mustered into Company “F” of Blythe’s Mississippi Infantry, Forty-Fourth Mississippi Infantry. He participated in several campaigns…

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The Devil’s Punchbowl

A bit of Natchez, Mississippi history during Union occupation that conveniently gets swept under the rug, as it destroys the narrative of Lincoln’s virtuous war of emancipation. According to local historian Don Estes, during the War Between the States, African…

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