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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 7 1 Browse Search
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 3 3 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.25 (search)
The country was in a flourishing condition and there was perhaps no place that could boast of a happier people. In 1859 a military company was organized by Preston Brent, a graduate of a military institute in the State of Kentucky. They named it the Quitman Guards. The company then was composed of the young men and some of th Dr. Hillory Quin, J. B. Quin, H. F. Bridgers, Richie Quinn, Christian Hoover, B. C. Hartwell, Widow Eliza Bickham, Owen Conerly, William A. Barr, J. A. Brent, Preston Brent, Jackson Coney, Andrew Kaigler, James A. Ferguson, W. M. Quinn, William Ellzey, Jeremiah Coney, R. G. Statham, James Conerly and W. M. Conerly, and the followise instrumental in its presentation and return to them. Pike county sent out eleven companies, besides Garland's Battalion, into the Confederate service. Preston Brent, who organized the Quitman Guards in 1859, also organized the Brent Rifles and took them out in 1862. He became colonel of the Thirty-eighth Mississippi Regim
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Index. (search)
uregard, General G. Y., 129 Bee, General Barnard E., 266. Bennett, Mrs., James Gordon, 36. Bennett, Hon. R. T Address of, 52. Berkeley, Captain, Charles, 371. Berkeley, Colonel, C. Edward, 371. Berkeley, Colonel, Norbourne, 371. Berkeley, Major, Wm, 371. Beverley, Capture of, 308. Bidgood, Sergeant Major J. V., 253. Blair, General Francis P., 213. Blair, Hon., Montgomery, burning of his house, an accident, 213. Bledsoe, Dr. A. 72. Botts, Major, Lawson, 266. Brent, Captain, Preston, 241. Brock H. C., wounded, 179. Bouldin, Captain E. E., 76. Bouldin, Powhatan 76. Buchanan Admiral Franklin, 32. Bull Run Bout, 172, 292. Burt. Colonel, killed, 365. Butler, Mrs. Mary A. (H. A.), 36. Cabell, Wm. Preston. 353. Campbell, Major S. H., Engineer Corps, 6. Canal, James River and Kanawha, primitive travel on, 354. Carnochan, Dr. J. M. 40. Carrington, Colonel H. A., 333. Carter, Captain, 15. Cedar Creek, Great Battle of 194. Chambersburg, B