Mississippi Civil War Historical Markers, Civil War Battlefield Locations, Union Army Places & MS C.S.A. Cemetery Sites |
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Balfour House - Built mid-1830s. Home of Emma Balfour, noted diarist of the Siege. Site of ...
Bank of Yazoo City - This bank was formed in 1876 by Yazoo County businessman to aid in the reco...
Battery F Battle Of Corinth - Only extant redan of six built in 1862 by U.S. troops as outer defense sout...
Battle Of Ackia - Near here, on May 26, 1736, French and Choctaw invaders under Bienville wer...
Battle Of Corinth-1862 (S4) - Site of Battery Williams. On Oct 4, the cannonade from here devastated the ...
Battle Of Corinth-1862 (S5) - Site of Battery Powell, one of chain of seven redoubts built by Union troop...
Battle Of Jackson - Here, May 14, 1863, 24th South Carolina infantry participated in delaying a...
Battle of Booneville - July 1, 1862. Union cavalry under Col. Philip Sheridan was attacked by a la...
Battle of Iuka - Bloody clash of Sept. 19, 1862 resulted from attempt of Gen. Wm. Rosencrans...
Battle of Port Gibson - First shot fired 4 mi. west of this point on May 1, 1863, during Grant's ad...
Battle of Raymond - May 12, 1863, on Fourteen Mile Creek, 2,500 Confederate troups under Gen. J...
Beauvoir - Built 1852. Last home of Jefferson Davis, U.S. Senator, Congressman, Secret...
Benjamin Whitfield - Pioneer Baptist minister who, in 1824, settled in Hinds County & organized ...
Boler’s Inn - Built by Wesley Boler in 1835. Used as stagecoach inn on the Jackson Road. ...
Bowman Hotel - From 1832 to 1856 the Eagle Hotel stood on the corner of State Street and A...
Boyd House The Oaks - Built ca. 1853 for James H. Boyd, Mayor of Jackson, 1842, 1844, 1850, and 1...
Brice’s Crossroads - Six miles west of Baldwyn, on June 10, 1864, General Forrest won his greate...
Bridgeport Plantation - On May 17, 1863, Pemberton's 4th brigade, commanded by Col. Reynolds, and p...
Brookhaven - Founded by Samuel Jayne in 1818, it grew rapidly as a railway terminus afte...
Brownlee Family Cemetery - Estab. In 1825 on the corner of a 1400 acre plantation owned by James Brown...
C.S.A. Arsenal - Here in 1862 Confederacy built huge arsenal employing over 1000 persons. La...
C.S.S. Arkansas - Launched on July 14, 1862, from the Navy Yard in Yazoo City, the ironclad r...
Calhoun Institute - The Calhoun Institute, a school for girls, was est. here in 1851 by W.R. Po...
Camargo 1847 - 2 mi. NW was the flourishing port of Camargo, named by veterans for their M...
Camp McCain - Established 1942 as a training facility for the United States Army during t...
Camp Van Dorn - Named for CSA General Earl Van Dorn, this U.S. Army Post served as a traini...
Capture of Booneville - On May 30, 1862, a Union brigade under the command of Col. W.L. Elliott of ...
Castalian Springs - W. 3 mi. Mineral springs created popular health spa prior to Civil War. Gir...
Chickasaw Bayou Battle - Here on December 27-29, 1862, General W.T. Sherman with 32,000 men was rout...
Chickasaw Female College - Established here, 1852, by Presbyterians. Building was used as hospital for...
Civil War Skirmish - Here, on July 4, 1864, Union landing force, sent from Rodney by General Ell...
Clinton Cemetery - Established ca. 1800, the Clinton Cemetery is one of the oldest in central ...
College Church - Organized by Presbyterian settlers in 1836. Church building erected 1844-46...
Confederate Cemetery - As a station on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, Okolona was the site of a lar...
Confederate Decoration Day - Began here, April 25, 1866, with first annual placing of flowers on graves ...
Confederate Fort - Main defensive position on Yalobusha River line held by Gen. Pemberton in f...
Confederate Hospital - In 1863, Willis R. Norman received a Confederate government contract to con...
Confederate Navy Yard - Established in 1862, the yard contained five saw and planing mills, machine...
Confederate Soldiers - ...
Corinth - Began 1854 as Cross City. Proximity to Tennessee River and the railroads ma...
Davis Mill - After a successful raid on the Federal supply base at Holly Springs, Confed...
Dead House - Originally built for use as a magnetic observatory. Used as Confederate mor...
Doolittle C.S.A Cemetery - In this cemetery, which has been maintained by Doolittle family since anteb...
Doro Plantation - Received as a fee in a famous Indian lawsuit in the 1840's by Charles Clark...
Drakes United Methodist Church - Est. April 20, 1858 as a Meth. Epis. Church, S. on land donated by Dr. &...
Ebenezer Church - E. 1 mi. Organized, July, 1842 by Rev. John Wilson as an Associate Reformed...
Edward C. Walthall - Lawyer, soldier, statesman, Maj. Gen. in Confederate Army. U.S. Senator fro...
Enterprise - Center of early trade on Chickasawhay River with Gulf Coast. Served during ...
Farmington Baptist Church - (Actual text for the Farmington Baptist Church not yet found.)...
Farragut Home - North 5 1/2 miles. Built circa 1800. Boyhood home of Admiral David Farragut...
Father Ryan Home - Residence in post Civil War years of Abram Ryan, priest, teacher, soldier, ...
Fayette - Named for Gen. Lafayette. First land grants date from 1768. Replaced Old Gr...
First Baptist Church (Hinds) - Built 1844, this is Jackson's oldest church structure. Used as a Confederat...
First Christian Church - Founded, 1839, through efforts of Talbert Fanning and David Lipscomb. Prese...
First Presbyterian Church - First Presbyterian Church was organized in 1839 by Scotch-Irish settlers. B...
Forks Of The Road - Site of the South's second largest slave market in the 19th century. Enslav...
Forrest’s Plantation - Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest owned a 1900 acre plantation her...
Fort Massachusetts - South 14 miles. Begun, 1850s through efforts of Secretary of War Jefferson ...
Freedmen Town - After the Civil War, many freedmen from Lafayette County moved into Oxford:...
Friendship Cemetery - Two state Governors, over 1,000 C.S.A. soldiers, including 4 generals, lie ...
Ft. Robinette - W. 1/2 mi. Now Confederate Park. Here, Oct. 5, 1862, during the Battle of C...
Gainesville Volunteers - In 1860, John Deason, a Mexican War veteran, organized a militia company he...
General James Patton - Born 1780 in South Carolina. First center of petition in 1808 to form Wayne...
Generals’ Headquarters (Verandah Curlee House) - Built about 1857 for Hamilton Mask. Used in Civil War as Hq. of Generals Br...
Glenfield Baptist Church - Organized in 1890 as the Baptist Church of Christ at the Valley during past...
Grant’s Headquarters - Site of hq. of Gen. Ulysses Simpson Grant in June, 1862. In mid-July Grant ...
Greenville - Port City of the Delta. Named for Gen. Nathanael Greene. Washington County ...
Greenwood Cemetery - Greenwood Cemetery is the oldest landmark in Jackson. Authorized by the Mis...
Greenwood Cotton Row District - District comprises state's most important concentration of buildings associ...
Grenada - Established July 4, 1836 by union of the towns of Pittsburg and Tullahoma. ...
Grierson’s Raid (Newton) - Here at Newton Station, on Apr. 24, 1863, Federals under Gen. Benjamin H. G...
Grierson’s Raid (Oktibbeha) - In 1863, Union Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson's renowned platoon looted Stark...
Gunnison - Founded 1889 on plantation or Arvin Nye Gunnison (1824-1882). Gunnison made...
Hampton Plantation - Purchased in 1840s by Hampton family. In fifties, sixties, & seventies ...
Harriet Blanton Theobald Park - Named for an early settler of Greenville who donated 47 ½ acres to h...
Harrison Hotel - Built ca. 1845, the hotel once located on this site was among the first pub...
Hill’s Plantation - Union gunboats under Admiral David Porter reached this site on March 16, 18...
Holcomb - Organized in 1901 on the home site of Capt. Isaac Perry, a Choctaw chief. H...
Holly Springs - Antebellum cotton town and center of social and cultural life. Home of 13 g...
Holt Collier - Born a slave in 1846, Collier served as a Confederate sharpshooter and cava...
Itta Bena - (Home in the Woods) The plantation homesite (from which town was named) of ...
Iuka - Chartered in 1857. Often used as military headquarters in the Civil War. Si...
J. Augustine Signaigo - J. Augustine Signaigo, born in 1835 in Italy, founded the Grenada Sentinel ...
J. Augustine Signaigo - J. Augustine Signagio, born in 1835 in Italy, founded in the Granada sentin...
Jacob Thompson’s Home Place - Oxford-University United Methodist Church: The mansion ca. 1853 located on...
John H. Nunnery - Across the Road and is site of home built in 1836 by John H. Nunnery, early...
Johnston’s Headquarters - Site of hq. of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, April 1—4, 1862. After hi...
Kossuth - Settled in 1840 as New Hope. Name changed to Kossuth in 1853 to honor Hunga...
L.Q.C. Lamar House - L. Q. C. Lamar House: Home of Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar from 1868 t...
Lafayette County Courthouse - The original courthouse was burned in August 1864 by Union troops led by Ge...
Lauderdale Springs C.S.A. Cemetery - S.E. 1.7 miles is hospital site and burial spot of 1020 C.S.A. and 80 Union...
Liberty - Founded 1809 and chartered 1828. Site of first Confederate monument in stat...
Linden Plantation - Established in 1827 by John Wesley Vick, son of Newitt Vick, founder of Vic...
Locapolis - On east bank of Tallahatchie. First port in county. At times in 1830's, wit...
Major General Ira Platt Swift - Born at Chicora, Mississippi, in February 1898, Ira Platt Swift graduated f...
Marion C.S.A. Cemetery - N.W. 3/4 mi. Here are buried 170 unknown Confederate soldiers who died at f...
Merrehope - A 20-room Neoclassical Revival mansion completed in 1904, the house began a...
Military Road - Built by War Department 1817-20, to connect New Orleans with Nashville. Sug...
Mound Bayou - Largest U.S. Negro town, settles July 12, 1887 by ex-slaves of Joe Davis, w...
Narrow Escape - Tunica County Courthouse - The Courthouse of Tunica County was burned by Union forces during the Civil...
Nathan Bedford Forrest Highway - Commemorating famed C.S.A. General whose cavalry rode here & elsewhere ...
Naval Battle of Bay St. Louis - On Dec. 14, 1814, five U.S. gunboats fired on a British fleet entering Lake...
O.E.S. Birthplace - In 1849 Robert Morris, Mason, schoolmaster, began a movement that resulted ...
Oak Home - Built in 1857 for Judge W.H. Kilpatrick. Used in Civil War as headquarters ...
Odd Fellows-Confederate Cemetery - Established circa 1840, this is Grenada's oldest cemetery. Buried here are ...
Okolona in the Civil War - Throughout the Civil War, Confederate forces were stationed in Okolona, tak...
Okolona - Founded as Rose Hill, 1845. Chartered as Okolona, 1850. Named for Chickasaw...
Old Brick House - Site granted by Spanish to Jean Baptiste Carquotte in 17--. Residence in Ci...
Old Greensboro - Three miles north, county seat of old Choctaw County. In early days was hau...
Old Greenwood Cemetery - Burial spot of veterans of four wars, Among 40 Confederates was Lt. Azro A....
Old Lebanon Presbyterian Church and Campground - Begun in 1840 by Rev. William A. Gray. First building destroyed by tornado ...
Pass Christian - Town and Pass (channel) named for Christian L'Adnier. Pass Christian was an...
Pemberton Headquarters - Built ca. 1835. Military headquarters of Lt. Gen. John Pemberton during the...
Point Lefore - N.E. 2 mi., at junction of Tallahatchie & Yalobusha Rivers is site of e...
Raymond Courthouse - Built 1857-9, by the famous Wldon brothers with skilled slave labor crew. A...
Rebel Armory - Began, 1859, as Jones, McElwain & Co., producers of grill work. First found...
Reuben Davis - (1813-1890) Home of noted politician, criminal lawyer, judge, legislator, ...
Rodney Presbyterian Church - Chartered in Jan. 1828, as the Presbyterian Church of Petit Gulf. Shelled b...
S.D. Lee Home - Home of Lt. Gen., C.S.A.; legislator; first president Miss. A.&M. Colle...
Senatobia - Began as R.R. station near Senatahoba Creek. Chartered, 1860. Occupied and ...
Ship Island - Twelve miles from the mainland is Ship Island. Iberville's fleet anchored h...
Site of The Hermitage - W. 2 mi. Built about 1800 by George W. Humphreys. Birthplace of Benjamin Gr...
Site of Ueltschey’s Tannery - Established 1857 by Albert Ueltschey, a Swiss immigrant. After the Civil Wa...
Skirmish at Rocky Creek - Near this site on June 25, 1863, a small group of Confederate soldiers and ...
Smith Park - Jackson's only surviving public sqare from Peter Vandorn's original city pl...
Snyder’s Bluff - W. 100 yd. Entrenchments built here for Vicksburg defense repelled Union gu...
Soldiers Rest C.S.A. Cemetery - Begun May 15, 1866 by Ladies Confederate Cemetery Assn. of Vicksburg. Remai...
Spring Hill Cemetery - Area settled circa 1830. Cemetery established 1852 a gift from Joseph and M...
St. John’s Church - S.W. 3.5 mi. First Episcopal church in Delta. Site donated by Jonathan McCa...
Starkville - Founded as Boardtown, 1831, on Hicashabaha (Redbud) Springs. Chartered, 183...
Steamboat Natchez - On March 13, 1863, near this site, the NATCHEZ burned and sank in the Yazoo...
Stonewall, Mississippi - Here, in 1868, was established one of the first industries in Mississippi. ...
Summerville Institute - Established in 1845; closed in 1876. Only functioning secondary school in M...
The Bernheimer Complex - Built by Samuel and Jacob, prominent Jewish businessmen, this complex forms...
The Cedars - Built ca. 1835, this Greek Revival house is one of the oldest in Hinds Co. ...
The Eagle and Bowman Hotels - Two of Jackson's historic hotels once stood at this site. The Eagle Hotel, ...
The Lewis House (Oldfields) - Oldfields. Greek revival house built circa 1845 online grant of Jean Baptis...
U.S. Grant Headquarters - Here Union General Ulysses S. Grant set up headquarters, where he attempted...
Union Quarters - Home used as quarters for Union officers, April, 1862, during occupation of...
Unity Cemetery - Unity Presbyterian Church organized in 1828 with the Rev. Thos. Archibald, ...
University of Mississippi - Affectionately known as Ole Miss. Chartered, 1844; opened 1848. In continuo...
Unknown Soldiers - C.S.A. Here lie 263 of Sterling Price's command who fell in Battle of Iuka,...
Vicksburg Siege - Beginning on May 16, 1863, Gen. U.S. Grant held city under siege, cutting o...
Vicksburg - Founded 1820 and named for the Rev. Newitt Vick. Was originally site of Spa...
Walthall Home - Here prior to Civil War lived Edward Cary Walthall, statesman, lawyer, Conf...
Waverley (S5) - W. 5 mi. Built 1852 by Col. Geo. H. Young, who used own plant for gas light...
Waverley (S6) - East 10 miles. Plantation home built circa 1852 by George H. Young. Octagon...
Whitworth College - Founded 1858, as Methodist womans college. Traditional successor to Elizabe...
William Harris Hardy - In 1880 near the banks of Gordon Creek, this lawyer, railroad builder and C...
Woodville - Chartered in 1811. Was Jefferson Davis' boyhood home. Gen. Poindexter lived...
Yazoo Pass Expedition - On February 3, 1863, Union forces blasted the Mississippi River levee to en...
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