Author: James R. Atkinson
Publisher:
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Category : Chickasaw County (Miss.)
Languages : en
Pages : 68

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Author: Chickasaw County Historical and Genealogical Society
Publisher: Curtis Media
ISBN: 9780881070422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 625

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Author: Thomas D. Cockrell
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807148849
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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"This long-forgotten historical document, newly edited and annotated, provides indispensable information about Confederate as well as Union espionage and counter-espionage activity. Naron's adventures illuminate this clandestine war in the West while allowing readers to experience the agony, frustrations, and convictions of a pro-Union southerner trapped inside the Confederate States."--Jacket.

Author: Chickasaw County Historical and Genealogical Society (Houston, Miss.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780881070422
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Harley Hill Floyd
Publisher:
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Category : Chickasaw County (Miss.)
Languages : en
Pages : 62

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Author: Houston High School (Houston, Miss.). Mississippi History Class
Publisher:
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Category : Chickasaw County (Miss.)
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Author: Brandon H. Beck
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614230447
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 101

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In February 1864, General William Sooy Smith led a force of over seven thousand cavalry on a raid into the Mississippi Prairie, bringing fire and destruction to one of the very few breadbaskets remaining in the Confederacy. Smith's raid was part of General William T. Sherman's campaign to march across Mississippi from Vicksburg to destroy the railroad junction at Meridian. Both Smith and Sherman intended to burn everything in their path that could aid in the Southern war effort. It was a harbinger of things to come in Georgia, South Carolina and the Shenandoah Valley. But neither reckoned with General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Forrest's small Confederate cavalry force defeated Smith in a running battle that stretched from West Point to Okolona and beyond. Forrest's victory prevented Smith from joining Sherman and saved the Prairie from total destruction. Join Civil War historian Brandon Beck as he narrates this exciting story, with all the realities and color of cavalry warfare in the Deep South. Also included is a brief guided tour of the extant sites, preserved for future generations by the Friends of the Battle of Okolona, Inc.

Author: Mississippi Historical Society
Publisher:
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Category : Mississippi
Languages : en
Pages : 410

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Author: Chickasaw County Historical and Genealogical Society (Houston, Mississippi)
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 57

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Author: Jack D. Elliott Jr.
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1496841883
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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Before William Faulkner, there was Colonel William C. Falkner (1825–1889), the great-grandfather of the prominent and well-known Mississippi writer. The first biography of Falkner was a dissertation by the late Donald Duclos, which was completed in 1961, and while Faulkner scholars have briefly touched on the life of the Colonel due to his influence on the writer’s work and life, there have been no new biographies dedicated to Falkner until now. To the Ramparts of Infinity: Colonel W. C. Falkner and the Ripley Railroad seeks to fill this gap in scholarship and Mississippi history by providing a biography of the Colonel, sketching out the cultural landscape of Ripley, Mississippi, and alluding to Falkner’s influence on his great-grandson’s Yoknapatawpha cycle of stories. While the primary thrust of the narrative is to provide a sound biography on Falkner, author Jack D. Elliott Jr. also seeks to identify sites in Ripley that were associated with the Colonel and his family. This is accomplished in part within the main narrative, but the sites are specifically focused on, summarized, and organized into an appendix entitled “A Field Guide to Colonel Falkner’s Ripley.” There, the sites are listed along with old and contemporary photographs of buildings. Maps of the area, plotting military action as well as the railroads, are also included, providing essential material for readers to understand the geographical background of the area in this period of Mississippi history.