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The Ambush at Coffeeville
In late 1862, Grant pushed south through north Mississippi along the Mississippi Central Railroad, aiming for Vicksburg. Confederate forces under John C. Pemberton fell back toward Grenada. Union cavalry under Colonel T. Lyle Dickey chased after them, hoping to catch stragglers. On December 5, 1862, the Confederate rear guard, including troops under Brigadier General Lloyd Tilghman, set a trap in the woods north of Coffeeville. When Dickey's riders came up the road, they ran into heavy fire and were driven back several miles. The Union lost over 100 men, while Confederate losses were much lighter. Coffeeville was small, but it was a warning. Two weeks later, Van Dorn's raid on Holly Springs destroyed Grant's supply base, and the overland drive on Vicksburg collapsed. Tilghman would not see the war's end. He was killed at Champion Hill the following May.
1914. Ex-president Theodore Roosevelt took on an unmapped Amazon river. Rapids, near starvation, a man drowned. His leg got infected, fever left him delirious, and he dropped a quarter of his weight. He came out alive. Comfort was never the point.
This river helped shape north Mississippi. Cotton, timber, supplies, and people moved through it. Floods changed the land. At Greenwood, it joins the Yalobusha to form the Yazoo.
Today we cross it in seconds.
Once, the Tallahatchie wasn’t something you crossed. It was the way there.
BLACK PANTHER
For months, Forest, MS residents heard a "banshee-like wail" as livestock vanished. Then hunter Otis Chapman shot a six-foot, 350-lb black cat in the swamp.
Experts say black panthers don't exist in North America…
Do you believe?
March 1863.
Union ironclads tried to slip around Vicksburg through the Mississippi Delta. Instead, they got trapped in narrow creeks choked with willows, fallen trees, mud, and Confederate fire. Warships built to fight forts nearly got beaten by the Delta itself.
New follower here. I’m all for preserving Southern history and heritage.
That’s a line worth holding.
Since my follower count is rising, it's time to remind everyone why this account exists.
My sole purpose on this platform is to return Southern symbols to the public sphere.
The Confederate flag was unfairly demonized, and removed from public spaces.
Confederate monuments were targeted, which directly led to the destruction of ALL monuments today.
Southern pride is not racist, and symbols of Southern Pride were recognized as such until five minutes ago, when race-centric interests from Black Lives Matter to the Klan Bros stole them for their own purposes.
If you don't like Confederate posting, I'm not the account for you. If you want to spend all day telling me how much you hate minorities, I'm not the account for you.
Deo Vindice
That regiment fought damn near the whole war. Shiloh. Perryville. Murfreesboro. Chickamauga. Atlanta. Tennessee. North Carolina.
By the end, there weren’t many left to surrender. Hard men from Arkansas.
8th Arkansas Infantry
8th Arkansas Infantry Regiment completed its organization in July, 1861, at Jacksonport, Arkansas, with men from the central part of the state. The unit moved east of the Mississippi River and lost heavily at the Battle of Shiloh. On April 26, 1862, it totalled 272 men and in May was consolidated into five companies and united with the 7th and 9th Arkansas Infantry Battalions. It was assigned to General Liddell's and Govan's Brigade, and in November, 1863, consolidated with the 19th (Dawson's) Arkansas Regiment. After fighting at Perryville, it participated in the campaigns of the Army of Tennessee from Murfreesboro to Atlanta, was with Hood in Tennessee, and ended the war in North Carolina. Its casualties were 29 killed and 124 wounded at Murfreesboro, and 14 killed, 92 wounded, and 65 missing at Chickamauga. The 8th/19th lost 16 men at Ringgold Gap, totalled 363 men and 265 arms in December, 1863, and had 97 disabled at the Battle of Atlanta. Few surrendered on April 26, 1865.
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