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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
He was not taught at West Point, but he gave lessons to West Point. His career was quite as brilliant and devoted in its allegiance to duty in peace as it was in the conflict of arms. His father's family had moved from Virginia, before the Revolution, to North Carolina, where every member able to bear arms at that time fought in the cause of independence. His parents moved thence to Bedford county, Tennessee, where he was born July 13, 1821. In 1834 he moved with his father to Marshall county, Mississippi, where the latter soon died, leaving young Forrest to support the widow and family with nc resources other than a small hill farm. He undertook this work with such devotion and energy, that while neglecting his own education he provided liberally for that of his brothers and sisters, and going into business at Memphis became able to purchase a large plantation, and at the outbreak of the war was one of the wealthiest planters in Tennessee. Soon after entering the Confederate se
The Daily Dispatch: September 19, 1861., [Electronic resource], Later from Nassau, N. P. (search)
An advertisement in the Liverpool papers states that on the re-opening of the port of Charleston, three first class steam screw ships will be dispatched for that port taking freight and passengers for all the Southern and Western States. The Charleston Mercury, of September 12th, says that Senor Moneader, the Spanish Consul in that city, will, in a day or two, clear a vessel from that port as from the Confederate States. Mr. G. L. Barnard, of Bahalin, Marshall county, Miss., has tendered to the city of Memphis one thousand bushels of meal, provided the city shall furnish sacks and pay-for the hauling. Some fifteen or twenty negroes have been seduced from the service of their masters, along the Potomac river, in King George, by the Lincoln pirates who now infest those waters. Samuel C. Reid, for many years a member of the bar and connected, with the press of New Orleans, is a candidate to represent the second Congressional district in the Confederate Congress
The Daily Dispatch: April 16, 1862., [Electronic resource], $50 reward. (search)
ood, reported killed; Jimmy McMannus, wounded slightly; Capt Chairs, 154 killed; J H McConly, do; wounded; E W Bradford, 155th Tenn, do; Leroy Reese, do, do; Fred Wekell, 154th, (B C Grays,) in the month; R F Maclay, 4th La, wounded; R H Wella, 3d Miss, do; J H Maye, 12th Tenn, do; Peter Duffee, 8th Ark, do; Jacob Oldham, 4th La, do; Guy Bridges, do; a Green, do; Wm Smith, 4th La., wounded; Lt Miller and younger brother, La. regiment, wounded; Col Kit Williams, killed;.--Kirkpatrick, Marshall county, Miss., wounded; John Jones, 13th Tenn., wounded; Capt Johns, 6th Tenn. killed; Gen Hindman, shell exploded in horse, and wounded by concussion; P Lawler, 4th La, wounded; James McDonald, 4th La., wounded; D J Robchaux, 4th La, wounded; A J Thompson, 4th La., wounded; J P Muse, 4th La, wounded; T J Andrews, 4th La, wounded; Lieut-Col Tyler, 4th Lt, wounded;--Grisson, John Black, two Scarboro's, Ren Lique, Adj't Howell, 13th Tennessee, wounded; W L McWhiter, 27th Tennessee, wounded; W S Hubb
The Daily Dispatch: June 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 5 (search)
Holly Springs and Manchaca. --Holly Springs, which is reported to have been captured by the enemy, is the county seat of Marshall county, Miss., and is on the Mississippi Central Railroad, one hundred and twenty miles north of Jackson. Manchaca, Louisiana, (also reported captured,) is a depot on the New Orleans and Jackson road, near the head of Lake Pontchartrain.
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1864., [Electronic resource], One thousand dollars reward. (search)
e rule: A regiment of negroes is encamped at Blue Spring, four miles north of Huntsville, and, in all likelihood, this is the bouquet of "African scent" to be placed on the barbette over the "loved ones at home." Bradford Hambrick, arrested and sent North to prison by the Abolitionists, is "to be held in confinement at hard labor until the close of the war." They have also arrested Ben. Harden, and put him in jail, to be tried "for the murders (?) he has committed in Madison and Marshall counties." The Yankees have, it is said, ordered all of the negro women and children to return home, to "aid in raising (and eating) a crop this year," and for the same purpose, all "refuse" negro men, such as are not fit for military service. Tom Jordan has been sent to a Northern prison. North Alabama is said to be filled with deserters and conscripts, and they will remain there unless the enemy is driven out. Gen. Legan refuse to allow, "as yet," trade to he carried on across th