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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 1: ancestry and boyhood. (search)
me a cotton-planter, in Warren County, Miss. He was successful both as a planter and a lawyer, and, at the beginning of the war between the States, possessed a very large fortune. Three of my brothers bore arms in the War of 1812, and the fourth was prevented from being in the army by an event so characteristic of the times, yet so unusual elsewhere, that it may be deemed worthy of note. When it was reported that the British were advancing to the attack of New Orleans, the men of Wilkinson County, who were then at home, commenced volunteering so rapidly that it was deemed necessary to put a check upon it, so as to retain a sufficient number at home for police purposes. For this purpose a county court, consisting of a justice and quorum, ordered a draft for a certain number of men to stay at home. This draft stopped my brother, who was about to start for New Orleans-making him the exception of my father's adult sons who were not engaged in the defence of the country during the
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Name Index of Commands, N. Wilkinson (search)
N. Wilkinson Col. 6th West Va. Infantry  Wilkinson's separate Brigade, Department of West Virginia Col. 6th West Va. InfantryDec., 1863, to Apr., 1864. 3d Brigade, 2d Division, 1st Division, Department of West Virginia Col. 6th West Va. InfantryJan., 1865, to May , 1865. 1st Brigade, 2d Infantry Division, 1st Division, Department of West Virginia Col. 6th West Va. InfantryMarch 27, 1863, to June 26, 1863. 6th Brigade, 1st Division, Eighth Army Corps, Middle Departm
Frederick H. Dyer, Compendium of the War of the Rebellion: Regimental Histories, Kentucky Volunteers. (search)
October 1-22. Near Perryville October 6-7. Near Mountain Gap October 14 and 16. Expedition to Big Hill and Richmond October 21. March to Nashville, Tenn., October 25-November 7. Duty there till December 26. Reconnoissance to Franklin December 11-12. Wilson's Creek Pike December 11. Franklin December 12. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Lavergne December 26-27. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Overall's Creek and Wilkinson's CrossRoads December 31. Lytle's Creek, Manchester Pike, January 5, 1863. Expedition to Franklin January 31-February 13. Unionville and Rover January 31. Rover February 13. Ordered to Kentucky February. Duty at Hopkinsville and Russellville and in District of West Kentucky till December, 1863. Action at Russellville June 28. Pursuit of Morgan July 2-26. Buffington Island, Ohio, July 19. Near Volney October 22. Lafayette November 27 (Detachment). Ordered
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 17. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), A list of Confederate officers, prisoners, who were held by Federal authority on Morris Island, S. C., under Confederate fire from September 7th to October 21st, 1864. (search)
., Lewisburg. Zzz=2d Lt. J. N. Hastings, 17th inft., Shellville. Zzz=2d Lt. A. J. Elzey, 17th inft., Columbia. Zzz=2d Lt. G. M. Hookerbery, 4th inft., Nashville. Zzz=2d Lt. J. M. Henry, 4th inft., Hartsville. Zzz=2d Lt. W. C. Campbell, 25th inft., Cookville. Removed from the pen on Morris Island to the Hospital. 2d Lt. B. H. Hutchison, 8th Va. inft., Loudon county, Va. Capt. S. J. Parkham, 54th N. C. inft., Henderson, N. C. 1st Lt. J. L. Birney, 49th Ga. inft., Wilkinson county, Ga. 1st Lt. C. W. Corzill, 11th Ark. inft., Little Rock, Ark. Capt. T. E. Castine, 8th Ky. cav., Lexington, Ky. 1st Ord. Officer P. D. Harten, Tenn., Nashville, Tenn. Capt. Henry Baker, 3d C. S. cav., Mississippi. Officers sent from Hilton head to Beaufort, S. C. Lt. Col. Evan Rice, 53d Va. mil., chronic diarrhea. Maj. A. A. Lawder, 7th Va. mil., loss of both legs. Capt. E. Carter, 8th Va. mil., wound in right leg. Zzz=Capt. J. B. Fitzgerald, 8th Va. mil., disease o
The Daily Dispatch: February 8, 1861., [Electronic resource], A Russian Prince Sentenced to Siberia. (search)
Secession on a small Scale. --A Georgia paper states that the town of Gordon, situated on the Central Railroad, at the junction of the road to Milledgeville, has, by an ordinance duly drawn up, signed and adopted by a meeting of the citizens of the place, formally receded from Wilkinson county, State of Georgia. The narrator proposes to call it the independent city of Gordon.
The Daily Dispatch: August 26, 1861., [Electronic resource], One of the Western Obituary notices. (search)
r resignations, to enter the Confederate service. They have gone to Richmond. Look out for him. Dr. A. Blaisdell, a Yankee Dentist, who for several months past has been suspected as an Abolitionist and enemy to the South. was apprehended by the Cars well Guards, for uttering disrespectful language at the public speaking during their encampment, and, after a decent ride upon a large pine rail, was drummed out of the camp, and ordered to leave the Southern Confederacy. The said Dr. A. Blaisdell left Wilkinson county, Georgia, on the 3d of August, with his wife and one child, and if he is still lurking in any part of the Southern Confederacy, he may be recognized by the following description: He is very tall, large and bony, being over six feet high, with large square shoulders, long nose, large mouth, angular features, blue or light grey eyes, auburn hair, tolerably thin beard, and a quick and pleasant address. Citizen of Wilkinson. Irwinton, Ga., Aug. 13, 1861.
The Daily Dispatch: January 4, 1864., [Electronic resource], article 15 (search)
Gen. Jos. E. Johnston has issued an order transferring the command of the "Army of the Mississippi to Lt.-Gen. Polk. W. B. Ryle, of Wilkinson county, Ga., a few days ago, slaughtered a hog which weighed, in gross, eleven hundred and twenty nine pounds. Morgan's command, which is about reassembling, is in want of horses, blankets and clothing. There were 6,199 barrels of flour inspected in Lynchburg, Va., last quarter. The race mare, Mollie Ruckner, won a race at Mobile a few days since. Time, 2.39½.