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,…
Category: Civil War in My Delta
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…
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…
