The 14th MS was part of Adams’s Brigade, Loring’s Division
“Our division was in the right of the Pike and on the top of a high ridge from where we could see all the movements of the enemy. The blue coats were busy fixing for us. We could see them by the thousands, shoveling dirt, cutting [...]
Archive for September, 2007
George Estes, Co A, 14th MS writes about the expected battle
Posted in Uncategorized on September 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
50th Ohio soldier writes of Franklin battle, mentions dead and wounded.
Posted in Uncategorized on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Columbia Tenn
Dec 28th 1864
Dear Sister,
I received a long letter from you today. I reply not because there is anything of importance transpiring just at present, but because when the most happens is the time I am entirely unable to write. Since I was last at Columbia we have had some stirring times. Hood drove us [...]
The McGavock Cemetery Book
Posted in Uncategorized on September 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
George Cuppett, who led the re-burial project from April to June 1866, recorded the names and identities of about 1,500 Confederate dead. He kept them the book pictured below. The book was passed on to the care of Carrie McGavock, which she kept diligently.
Here the book is opened to the Mississippi section of boys [...]
