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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