Life and death of a Partisan
On March 16, 1863 the 3rd Iowa Cavalry marched into the small settlement of Mound Place in Northern Coahoma County. They were led by Major John Willock Noble who stationed…
Tag: Tunica County in the Civil War
Michael Deering
Helena, Arkansas About three years before the Civil War there was a famine so desperate that thousands of the Irish people came to the United States to earn a livelihood.…
Mississippi Swampers: Company B, 44th Mississippi Infantry Roster (Chapter 2)
Officers: Robert H. Humphreys – Captain: Age 30, June 11, 1861- killed at the Battle of Shiloh April 6, 1862. James Moore – 1st. Lieutenant: Age 25, June 11, 1861-…
Mississippi Swampers are Born: Battle of Belmont and Shiloh (Chapter 1)
The Mississippi Swampers were organized at Memphis, Tennessee on June 11, 1861. It’s origins go further south though. Robert J. Humphreys was the popular sheriff of Tunica…
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…
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,…
