Tag Archives: 13th Mississippi Infantry Regiment

Reprise: The Journey: Kingsmill Wharf to Lee’s Mill

Posted on December 4, 2015 by Dick Stanley

The Spartan Band diarist Albert Wymer Henley on Wednesday, April 9, 1862: “About 4 p.m. we landed at ‘Kings Mills’ on the James River when under a drenching rain and in places nearly knee deep, we proceeded to march about … Continue reading →

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Another Look At Barksdale

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Dick Stanley

“Forty-two years old, Barksdale was one of the Confederacy’s most inspirational brigadiers, and his brigade of big, rangy, straight-shooting Mississippians was second to none. Barksdale was a political general, and couldn’t be asked to achieve anything tactically sophisticated, but as … Continue reading →

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Reprise: Marching and Countermarching

Posted on September 8, 2015 by Dick Stanley

Thursday, July 2, 1863, was clear and warm, according to Spartan Band diarist William H. Hill: “General Lee brought all of his forces up this morning in front of the enemy. Both parties skirmished all the morning.” Barksdale’s Brigade could … Continue reading →

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Private Edward P. Stanley

Posted on August 29, 2015 by Dick Stanley

My great grandfather Edward P. Stanley in an iPhone camera copy of a tintype photo taken in the late 1850s-early 1860s. The image, as with all tintypes, is reversed. E.P. was a private in the Minutemen of Attala from the … Continue reading →

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Legacy of war

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Dick Stanley

        This crutch belonged to Joseph W. Weatherly of the 13th Regiment’s Minutemen of Attala, a private from his 1861 enlistment, according to independent historian Grady Howell, to when one of his legs was amputated after the … Continue reading →

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Mississippi Governor Benjamin Grubb Humphreys

Posted on July 19, 2015 by Dick Stanley

This is the official painting from the online site of the Mississippi State Archives, from Humphreys’ brief tenure as Mississippi’s twenty-sixth governor immediately after the war, which has a curious history. He was a wealthy Delta planter and slave owner who … Continue reading →

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Captain Lorenzo Dow Fletcher

Posted on July 11, 2015 by Dick Stanley

Captain Fletcher, a veteran of the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment in the Mexican War and a post-war gold-rush Forty-Niner, organized and recruited the Minute Men of Attala, the first company from Attala County. He led them in the Battle of … Continue reading →

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The Bradley brothers at Gettysburg

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Dick Stanley

The Civil War blog Battlefield Back Stories has a poignant tale of the Bradley brothers, John and George, who were killed at Gettysburg. Both had started out in the Winston Guards of Louisville, Mississippi, as had their younger brother, Joseph, … Continue reading →

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