Category Archives: H. Grady Howell Jr.

Hurry up and wait

Posted on September 10, 2011 by Dick Stanley

July 1, 1863, was the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg—in which a Confederate division under General Henry C. Heth, approaching Gettysburg in a recon-in-force, collided with a Union cavalry screen. For Barksdale’s Brigade, camped at Greenwood, about fourteen … Continue reading →

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Four lieutenants demoted

Posted on June 9, 2011 by Dick Stanley

Spartan Band diarist William H. Hill said it was snowing at dress parade on the morning of March 12, 1863, when an order from Gen. Lee was read to the regiment. The order said that four 13th lieutenants whom a … Continue reading →

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Reprise: Clara Barton & the 13th

Posted on May 14, 2011 by Dick Stanley

Painting by famed Civil War artist Mort Kunstler of Red Cross-founder Clara Barton on December 15, 1862, at Chatham Plantation near Fredericksburg, VA,  serving a Confederate POW—identified as Captain Thurman Thomas of the 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. Or was he? … Continue reading →

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Buried on the battlefield

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Dick Stanley

In 1906 a book was published in Ohio listing the names and locations of Confederates who were so badly wounded in the Maryland campaign that they were left on the battlefield by their departing comrades. These men subsequently died in … Continue reading →

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Arrival of the Twenty-first Mississippi

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Dick Stanley

The Twenty-first Mississippi Infantry Regiment, the final component of the future Barksdale’s Mississippi Brigade (the 13th, 17th, 18th and 21st), arrived Nov. 12 and joined Evans’s Seventh Brigade. The Twenty-first was composed of eleven companies which had all, according to … Continue reading →

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Jews in the 13th

Posted on September 18, 2010 by Dick Stanley

Mississippi’s Jewish population began to grow in the late 19th Century, principally in the central part of the state, eventually reaching  a community of about 1,500 in the Delta alone. But there had always been some Jews. And, so, Dr. … Continue reading →

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The 13th at Beauvoir Cemetery

Posted on August 5, 2010 by Dick Stanley

Apparently six veterans of the 13th are buried at Beauvoir, Confederate President Jefferson Davis’s last home on the Mississippi coast, owned and operated by the Mississippi SCV. The six, according to the cemetery records here, are G.W. Agnew, James Benson, … Continue reading →

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Muster rolls

Posted on July 23, 2010 by Dick Stanley

One of the best sources of muster rolls for each company of the 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment is H. Grady Howell Jr.’s muster roll listing. Howell is generally regarded as the definitive source, though I know of at least one … Continue reading →

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