Expedition from Helena toward Grenada: Part One
After the successful battle of Corinth in October 1862 General Ulysses S. Grant began his move down the Mississippi Central Railroad in an attempt to capture Vicksburg by an overland…
Category: Civil War in My Delta
Lieutenant Adam B. Smith and the Battle of Helena
Adam Burns Smith enlisted in a company being organized at Jefferson City, Missouri on August 14, 1862. The men soon joined other companies at Benton Barracks in St. Louis where…
Colonel Willliam F. Wood
William Francis Wood was born March 23, 1826 in Ireland. As many people did during this time he eventually traveled to America to start a new life. He soon married…
Engagement at Brown’s Gin
On August 11, 1862 a brief but deadly battle took place on the line between Tunica and Coahoma counties in Northwest Mississippi. Company A of the 47th Indiana Infantry consisting…
Battle of Hunt's Mill
The Yazoo Pass is a small and winding stream that connects Moon Lake to the Coldwater River. After the Mississippi Delta was opened to settlement in the late 1830s, thousands…
Aaron Forrest
Aaron Forrest was born April 8, 1863 in Bedford County, Tennessee. He was a younger brother of Nathan Bedford Forrest. For awhile, he and his older brother were involved in…
Yazoo Pass Expedition
In early 1863, Major General Ulysses S. Grant decided to try another method of getting around the Confederate stronghold of Vicksburg. This time, he would attempt to send a combined…
Major Samuel Madison Corley
Samuel Madison Corley was the Fighting Preacher of Colonel Dobbin’s Regiment who led a company early in the war known as “Corley’s Spies.”
