NOXUBEE COUNTY.

 
     There is a cemetery for Confederate soldiers in the Odd Fellows’ cemetery, Macon. It is well enclosed and well kept by the honored order of Odd Fellows. It contains the bodies of three hundred soldiers whose names are unknown. Within it is an appropriate monument.

-W. P. Minor, Esq., has kindly furnished the information upon which these statements are based.

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     In Magnolia there is a soldiers’ cemetery which is enclosed and nicely kept by the Ladies’ Cemetery Association.  Two hundred nineteen soldiers’ remains rest therein.  Their names have been lost;  they were from Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana and Tennessee.  Most of the wounded were from the battle of Shiloh.  These graves are decorated with appropriate memorial exercises April 26 of each year.

- Hon. W. C. Vaught has kindly given data for the statements in this paragraph.

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     Two soldiers were buried in the Citizens’ cemetery in Pontotoc town.

- This fact was kindly communicated to me by Mr. R. B. Patterson.

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     A part of the Citizens’ cemetery at Booneville is appropriated to the “Confederate Dead.” This cemetery is enclosed by an ornamental wire fence, and within it has been erected a monument to the brave defenders of the South. This cemetery is under the care of Mrs. G. B. Ellington and is nicely kept. There are seventy-four graves in it. Among those who were buried at this place are the following: 

Moses McCauley, Lieut. Col. 11th Miss. Infantry; 
J. M. Walker, courier for Gen. Jas. R. Davis; 
J. M. Bynum, 32d Miss. Infantry; 
Geo. Walter, 26th Miss. Reg.; 
Henry Smith, 32d Miss. 

     Two of the soldiers buried here were killed in Generall Chalmers’ Booneville fight; the others are principally from Bragg’s army at Corinth. The patriotic spirit of the people of Prentiss county is happily illustrated by the fact that they took steps a few years ago to locate all the Confederate graves in the county. The bodies were then carefully removed, re-coffined and re-interred in this cemetery.

     The leaders in this movement should be mentioned with special honor. Their names are, Major Sam. P. Allen and Capt. B. A. P. Selman, who recently “fell on sleep.” Decoration Day is observed annually and the graves are covered with flags and flowers.

- I am indebted for data to Rev. B. P. Jaco.

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     There is a Confederate cemetery at Brandon.  It is nicely kept by the camp of Confederate Veterans and the citizens generally.  About one hundred soldiers were buried there, mainly from the battlefields of Tennessee and Mississippi.

- Maj. Pat Henry, 14th Miss. Regt., has kindly furnished me with the facts here given.

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     There is a Confederate cemetery at Forest. It is enclosed and well kept, being cared for by the town. In it are buried six Confederate soldiers, whose names are unknown, except that one was named “McLemore” and another, “Flanagan.” Nothing else is known of them. Citizens of this good town, by private subscription, erected a monument to these deceased soldiers inscribed as follows:

- For these interesting and pathetic facts I am indebted to Hon. Oliver B. Triplett.

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     There is no separate Confederate cemetery in Tippah county; but Confederate soldiers were buried in the general cemetery at Ripley. Their graves receive the same attention those of citizens. Six or eight of these soldiers were killed in the battle of Corinth, in November, 1862; eight or ten others were killed in the battle Forrest had at Ripley with Sturgis after the battle of Brice’s Cross Roads. The soldiers buried here were from Arkansas, Texas, Missouri, Tennessee and South Carolina. No name is preserved except that of Lieutenant Cox, of Missouri.

- For the above interesting facts I am indebted to Doctor John Y. Murry, of Ripley.

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     This county, mainly through the pious and patriotic efforts of the Jno. Marshall Stone Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Christian citizens of luka, has nobly done its duty towards the Confederate dead.

     There is a well inclosed, well kept Confederate cemetery, in which rest three hundred Confederate soldiers. The names of individuals are not known; one hundred fifty of these brave, dutiful men were Texans, one hundred of them Missourians, and about fifty of them Arkansians. They were members of General Price’s army, and nearly all of them were killed in the battle at Iuka An appropriate Confederate monument attests the nobility of heart and the fidelity to truth of these good citizens. Of them it may truly be said: “Well done.”

- These facts have been kindly furnished me by Mrs. Elsie McKnight, Past U. D. C. and by Mr. A. B. Patterson, D. C.
 

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     The following brief, but interesting letter from Dr. S. A. Gassaway, tells the story for Union county:

“We have no cemetery exclusively for Confederates. All of our comrades who died at home or who were brought home were buried in the family graveyards. We have one monument, four miles south of New Albany, built by Mr. S. K. Wilkins in memory of his four brothers who were killed in the Virginia Army. This is a neat monument, which together with the iron fence enclosing it, (about one-eighth of an acre) cost about $800. None of the brothers, however, are buried here. But the in-closure is kept as a family burying ground. Some friends are also buried here. It is well kept.”

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     There is a well kept, enclosed Confederate cemetery, two miles northeast of the city of Vicksburg. In it are buried a large, but unknown number of Confederate soldiers. They were from the army of General Pemberton, and were killed or died during the siege of Vicksburg, in 1863. This cemetery is under the care of the Ladies’ Memorial Association, which has erected on the ground an appropriate monument.

- Credit for information is given to Hon. R. V. Booth.

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     There is a Confederate cemetery in the town of Woodville, half a mile south of the county courthouse. It is enclosed and well kept, covering about one-fourth of an acre. In the center of it stands a monument which cost $950.00. This monument was purchased by the Ladies’ Memorial Association which raised the funds by entertainments and subscriptions.  For years this cemetery was under the care of the Ladies’ Memorial Association, Mrs. D. C. Bramlette, President. The graves are mounded and turfed, and each of them has a head and foot board. The cemetery is a clean, beautiful, well shaded spot. It is now cared for by Hon. W. C. Miller, Mayor, and other city officers. Three of the dead fell in the battle of McGehee bridge, two miles south of Woodville. Jno. Raland, of 4 La., was one of them. The others died from sickness in the hospital in 1863-4 with the exception of Capt. W. P. McNeilly and Jno. P. Delaney.

- Capt. W. P. McNeilly was a brother of Hon. Seymour McNeilly, editor of the "Vicksburg Herald."

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     Although there is no separate Confederate cemetery in this county, many Confederate soldiers were buried in the Citizens’ cemeteries at Water Valley and at Coffeeville, and others were buried in various places.

    The cemeteries at the two towns mentioned are neatly kept. No soldiers’ monument has been erected.

- The above facts are from the pen of J. D. Haile, Chancery Clerk, forrmerly a soldier in Co. H, 15th Miss. Reg., who mentions especially Col. D. L. Herron and Capt. p. M. Aldridge, both killed at Shiloh.

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