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Confederate Monument, Mississippi Department of Archives and History Building, dedicated June 1891. [2] [3] [4] In front of the Old Capitol Museum.Unusual in that a former slave and Republican member of the legislature, John F. Harris, spoke passionately in favor of it, while some whites spoke against it.
Pages in category "Confederate States of America monuments and memorials in Mississippi" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This list of cemeteries in Mississippi includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable. It does not include pet cemeteries
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The Confederate section contains about 150 graves of Confederate soldiers who died in the Grenada area. [2] The cemeteries may contain burials from several specific calamities. Grenada suffered a tornado on May 7, 1846, which destroyed 112 houses and killed 21 persons. And it suffered a fire in 1855 which burned about half of the town's buildings.
This category is for permanent military cemeteries established for Confederate soldiers and sailors who died during campaigns or operations. A common difference between cemeteries of war graves and those of civilian peacetime graves is the uniformity of those interred. They generally died during a relatively short period, in a small geographic ...
Isham Warren Garrott (1816–1863), Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War. [12] Martin Edward Green (1815–1863), Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War. [12] Patrick Stevens Henry (1861–1933), U.S. Representative from Mississippi (1901–03). [13]
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and was designated a Mississippi Landmark in 1989. As of 2015, the cemetery contained some 22,000 graves within an area of 70 acres and was still in use. [5] The Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science hosts a public event every April at night in the cemetery ...