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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.
Mississippi was the second southern state to declare its secession from the United States, doing so on January 9, 1861. It joined with six other southern states to form the Confederacy on February 4, 1861. Mississippi's location along the lengthy Mississippi River made it strategically important to both the Union and the Confederacy; dozens of ...
Decoration Day ladies. Martha Elizabeth "Matt" Morton (b. Dec. 1828 – d. Aug. 1904). [3] In 1838, the Mortons arrived in Columbus, Mississippi from Georgia and purchased their home, known as "Twelve Gables". One of their four children, Martha, never married. Her brother, a Confederate military officer, was killed during the Battle of Shiloh.
Designated USMS. October 24, 1985 [ 1 ] The Beauvoir estate, built in Biloxi, Mississippi, along the Gulf of Mexico, was the post-war home (1876–1889) of the former President of the Confederate States of America Jefferson Davis. The National Park Service designated the house and plantation as a National Historic Landmark.
The Tomb of the Unknown Confederate Soldier is a tomb on the grounds of Beauvoir in Biloxi, Mississippi, that holds the remains of an unidentified Confederate soldier of the American Civil War. The remains were discovered in late 1979 on a battlefield of the Vicksburg Campaign. Artifacts accompanying the remains showed that the person had been ...
38,586 total. (1,413 killed 3,878 wounded 3,800 missing 29,495 surrendered) [ 2 ][ 3 ] The Vicksburg campaign was a series of maneuvers and battles in the Western Theater of the American Civil War directed against Vicksburg, Mississippi, a fortress city that dominated the last Confederate -controlled section of the Mississippi River.
Creation of national cemeteries. The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War, in an act passed by the U.S. Congress on July 17, 1862. [1] By the end of 1862, 12 national cemeteries had been ...
Stephen D. Lee. Stephen Dill Lee (September 22, 1833 – May 28, 1908) was an American officer in the Confederate Army, politician, and first president of Mississippi State University from 1880 to 1899. [1] He served as lieutenant general of the Confederate States Army in the Eastern and Western theaters of the American Civil War.