Category: Civil War in My Delta
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Nancy Lindsley’s Saga on the Pass
Nancy was the daughter of Samuel and Susanna Brown. She was born in Kentucky around 1815. Her parents were married on September 14, 1807 in Garrard County, Kentucky. Samuel was an ordained minister. She had a large family and one of her brothers was Issac N. Brown, who would become famous as Captain of the…
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Dr. Johnathan Smith Bostick
Johnathan Smith Bostick was born in 1806 in North Carolina and moved to Tennessee with his family. He married Margaret M. Elliott on November 4, 1844 in Rutherford County. He started a medical practice in Murfreesboro. They had four children, but times were hard in those days. All of his kids died young with the…
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Phillips County Enters the War
The year 1861 saw much division in the state of Arkansas. Many people around Arkansas were excited about the idea of seceding from the United States. However, there were just as many families living in the mountains and hill regions of Arkansas that were against it. Phillips County was listed as being in support of…
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Tunica and Coahoma enter the Civil War
On January 20, 1861, Mississippi State troops under orders from Governor John J. Pettus occupied the unfinished U.S. fort on Ship Island in the Gulf of Mexico. One day later, the Congressional delegation from Mississippi withdrew from Washington with Senator Jefferson Davis being the last to leave. The Army of Mississippi was organized on January…
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Coahoma Invincibles: Company B, 11th Mississippi
The Coahoma Invincibles were organized in Friars Point in Coahoma County, Mississippi. Their officers were Captain Samuel N. Delany, First Lieutenant L.D. Suddoth, Second Lieutenant Tidinee L. Johnson, and Third Lieutenant John F. Cox. Samuel N. Delany listed his profession as lawyer; Lt. Johnson was a farmer; and John F. Cox was a lawyer. Among…
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Some Delta delegates to the Arkansas and Mississippi Secession Conventions
Map of Mississippi before the Civil War Tunica County, Mississippi Andrew Miller was born on December 6,1801 in South Carolina. He moved to Mississippi and began planting near Austin in Tunica county. Representing Tunica County in the secession convention, he voted strictly secessionist. Miller was too old to join the Confederate Army and…
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