Christopher T. Losson

Confederate general John Adams was born on 1 July 1825 in Nashville, Tennessee. Adams entered West Point in 1841 and…

William Wirt Adams, the older brother of fellow Confederate general Daniel W. Adams, was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, on 22…

Confederate general Samuel Benton, a nephew of Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri, was born on 18 October 1820, probably…

Confederate general William Lindsay Brandon was born in October 1802 near Washington in Adams County, Mississippi. He was the youngest…

At the outset of the Civil War few people could have foreseen the enormous death toll that would result from…

James Ronald Chalmers was born in Halifax County, Virginia, on 11 January 1831. In 1839 his family moved to Holly…

Memorials that honor Civil War participants exist in numerous Mississippi communities, with the vast majority erected in homage to the…

Douglas Hancock Cooper was born on 1 November 1815 in Amite County, Mississippi Territory, the son of a Baptist minister…

Soul singer Tyrone Davis was born in Greenville on 4 May 1938 to the Rev. Willie Branch and Ora Davis-Branch.…

  Samuel Wragg Ferguson was born on 3 November 1834 in Charleston, South Carolina, the eldest of James and Abby…

Novelist and author of the acclaimed three-volume The Civil War: A Narrative, Shelby Foote was born in Greenville, Mississippi, on…

Samuel Gibbs French was born in Gloucester County, New Jersey, on 22 November 1818. He graduated from West Point in…

A politician and Confederate general, Samuel Jameson Gholson was born on 19 May 1808 in Madison County, Kentucky. He relocated…

By the time Ulysses S. Grant contemplated a campaign in Mississippi in 1862, he was no longer an obscure officer…

Confederate general Martin Edwin Green was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, on 3 June 1815. In 1836 he moved with…

Richard Griffith, an officer in the Mexican War and a Confederate general, was born on 11 January 1814 near Philadelphia,…

Guerrilla (irregular) warfare erupted in a number of areas in Mississippi during the Civil War. It was particularly prevalent in…

Mississippi’s January 1861 secession inaugurated a four-year struggle that profoundly affected the state’s citizens. Although support for leaving the Union…

A sharp engagement fought during the Vicksburg Campaign occurred on 12 May 1863 just outside Raymond. Better intelligence by the…

James Argyle Smith was born on 1 May 1831 in Maury County, Tennessee. His family relocated to Mississippi, and Smith…

Confederate general Peter Burwell Starke was born in 1815 in Brunswick County, Virginia. He moved to Bolivar County in the…

As in most of the South, waterways enormously influenced developments in Mississippi. The Mississippi River forms the state’s western boundary,…

William Feimster Tucker was born in Iredell County, North Carolina, on 9 May 1827. He graduated from Emory and Henry…

The United Confederate Veterans (UCV) was created in June 1889 when representatives of various Confederate veterans’ groups met in New…

Confederate general Earl Van Dorn was born on 17 September 1820 in Port Gibson, Mississippi, the son of Peter Van…

Following a failed attempt to capture Vicksburg employing primarily naval forces in the summer of 1862, Union authorities renewed their…

Edward Cary Walthall, a Confederate general and US senator, was born in Richmond, Virginia, on 4 April 1831 to Sally…

Following an abortive attempt to capture Vicksburg in late 1862, Ulysses S. Grant cast about for alternative methods to reduce…