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Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 2 0 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1864., [Electronic resource] 2 0 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 1 1 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Cobb, Joseph Beckham 1819-1858 (search)
Cobb, Joseph Beckham 1819-1858 Author; born in Oglethorpe county, Ga., April 11, 1819; educated at Franklin College, Ga., settled in Noxubee county, Miss., in 1838. His publications include The Creole, or the siege of New Orleans (a novel ); Mississippi scenes, or sketches of Southern and Western life and adventure, etc. He died in Columbus, Ga., Sept. 15, 1858.
Colonel Charles E. Hooker, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 12.2, Mississippi (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 10: (search)
Mississippi and one North Carolina regiments in that celebrated charge. Mr. Rietti (Annals of Mississippi, p. 148) writes as follows: As it was, the Union line proved too strong for the attacking force, and remained unbroken save the place where the brigade of Gen. Joseph R. Davis pushed into it at the historic fence and there halted for breath. At this point Lieut. A. J. Baker and Lieut. Tyler Hester, both distinguished Mississippians, fell severely wounded, and Capt. J. R. Prince, of Noxubee county, after trying in vain to find a superior officer, and learning that strong reinforcements were moving up from the Federal rear, gave the order for retreat. Lieutenants Baker and Hester were left on the field and were taken prisoners and carried to the Union rear, where there was disorder and confusion at this point. Captain Prince, in a recent letter which sounds like an echo from Balaklava, says that after giving the order to retreat the brigade retired, about 300 in number, in passab
The Daily Dispatch: February 25, 1864., [Electronic resource], The Legislature. (search)
A rich country. --A Southern exchange gives the following description of the country through which the enemy's forces, under Grierson, were to pass to the assistance of Sherman. It will be gratifying to know that such a fruitful district has been partially relieved from the depredations of the Yankees: From Pontotoc, Mississippi, to the southern boundary line of Noxubee county, a distance of 89 or 90 miles from 40 to 50 in width, there is an area of country rich as the Delta of the Nile. Magnificent plantations are spread on either side of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad level as the sea, and dotted with abodes of wealth and intelligence.--Pontotoc, Aberdeen, Columbus, and Macon, are the centres of local trade for all this region. These towns have an aggregate population of perhaps 30,000, and the narrow territorial limits of their trade illustrates the fact we have stated, that in losing control of this region the South has lost its richest granary. Though penetrated by a