ALCORN COUNTY.
     This county has no Confederate cemetery but has a Confederate monument. There are perhaps 200 Confederate graves in the old cemetery, which is now used by Negroes. The cemetery and the graves are neglected. Very few of the graves have headstones; those only, whose relatives have erected them. The grave of Colonel Rogers, who fell in Fort Robinet is well kept by the Daughters of the Confederacy. Nearly all, if not all, of the soldiers buried here were killed in battle or died of wounds. They were principally of Beauregard’s, Price’s and VanDorn ‘s commands, and came from the battles of Shiloh, Farmington and Corinth.
 

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AMITE COUNTY.

     There is no separate Confederate cemetery in Amite county. Many soldiers were buried in the town cemetery. Their graves are not marked. Amite has a Confederate monument, which it claims was the first erected in this State. It is enclosed with an iron fence and has on it the names of more than 300 dead soldiers   from various Confederate armies. I regret that the names on the monument were not copied and sent to the writer.

- H. M. Bates, Chancery Clerk of Amite county, has kindly furnished the facts here given.

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ATTALA COUNTY.

     In this county about eighteen Confederate soldiers were buried in the Citizens’ cemetery in Kosciusko. Their graves are without names. No information is obtainable as to their companies, regiments, or states. All that is known is the pathetic fact that during the war they grew sick and died and were buried by the citizens.
 

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