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Captain Lorenzo Dow Fletcher

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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Visiting a 13th soldier’s Richmond grave

Texan Weldon Nash, Jr., whose ancestor Nimrod Newton Nash wrote so many of the good letters in this digital regimental until he was killed at Gettysburg, recently visited the Richmond grave of Henry T. Nash, another Minute Men private. Henry, … Continue reading

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The Minute Men of Attala

About 135 names are listed here for the Minute Men of Company I (D Company before the regiment’s 1862 reorganization) of Attala County, posted by David Frazier at Frazier Genealogy. All are attributed to author James H. Wallace who wrote … Continue reading

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