MISSISSIPPI 101

Additional Information Can Be Obtained at:

• Battlefield and Forts of the American South - http://www.exploresouthernhistory.com/battlefields.html
• Congressional Medal of Honor - http://www.cmohs.org/
• Faces of Valor, Honor the Fallen - http://projects.militarytimes.com/valor/
• Historical Marker Database - http://www.hmdb.org//
• Iraqi Casualties - http://icasualties.org/OEF/USCasualtiesByState.aspx
• Mississippi Korean War Casualties - http://www.vetfriends.com/memorial/mem_alphab.cfm?war_id=3&page_id=1&states_id=26
• Mississippi State Veterans Affairs Board - http://www.vab.ms.gov/
• Mississippi Vietnam War Casualties - http://www.vetfriends.com/memorial/mem_alphab.cfm?war_id=4&states_ID=26
• US World War I Casualty Records - https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/United_States_World_War_I_Casualty_Records

Counties of Cities/Towns Represented

• Adams - Natchez
• Alcorn - Corinth
• Amite (email sent to county VSO)
  
• Attala (email sent to county)
  
• Benton (email sent to county)
  
• Bolivar - Cleveland
  
• Carroll - Coila
• Calhoun (no county website)
  
• Carroll (email sent to county)
  
• Chickasaw (email sent to county)
  
• Choctaw (email sent to county)
  
• Claiborne - Port Gibson
• Clarke (email sent to county)
  
• Clay (email sent to county)
  
• Coahoma (email sent to county)
  
• Copiah (email sent to county)
  
• Covington - Collins, Seminary
  
• DeSoto (email sent to county)
  
• Forrest - Hattiesburg
• Franklin (no email contact available) Contacted Historical Society)
  
• George (no email contact available)
  
• Greene (email sent to county)
  
• Grenada (email sent to county)
  
• Hancock - Gainesville
• Harrison - Biloxi
  
• Hinds - Jackson, Raymond
• Holmes (no email contact available)
  
• Humphreys

• Issaquena (email sent to county)
  
• Itawamba (email sent to county)
  
• Jackson - Ocean Springs
• Jasper (email sent to county)
  
• Jefferson - Lorman
• Jones - Ellisville
• Kemper (email sent to county)
  
• Lafayette (email sent to county)
  
• Lamar - Purvis
  
• Lauderdale - Meridian
• Lawrence (email sent to county)
  
• Leake (email sent to county)
  
• Lee - Baldwyn, Tupelo
• Leflore - Greenwood
  
• Lincoln (email to county)
  
• Lowndes - Columbus
• Madison (email to county)
  
• Marion (no email available)
  
• Marshall (email to county)
  
• Monroe (email to county)
  
• Montgomery - Duck Hill
  
• Neshoba - (email to county)
  
• Newton - Decatur, Newton
• Noxubee - Macon
• Panola (email to county)
  
• Oktibbeha - Starkville
  
• Pearl River - Picayune
• Perry (no email available)
  

• Pike  (email to county)
  
• Pontotoc - Pontotoc
• Prentiss (email to county)
  
• Quitman (email to county)
  
• Rankin (unable to find contact)
  
• Scott (unable to find contact)
  
• Sharkey (unable to find contact)
  
• Simpson (unable to find contact)
  
• Smith (email to county)
  
• Stone (email to county)
  
• Sunflower (email to Historical society)
  
• Tallahatchie - Charleston
• Tate (email to county)
  
• Tippah (no email available)
  
• Tishomingo - Iuka
• Tunica - Tunica
• Union (unable to find contact)
  
• Walthall - Tylertown
  
• Warren - Redwood, Vicksburg
• Washington - Greenville
• Wayne (email to county)
  
• Webster (no email/website)
  
• Wilkinson
• Winston (email to county)
  
• Yalobusha (email to county)
  
• Yazoo (Facebook contact)
  

To Find A City, Click on the First Letter of the City to be Directed to a List of Cities that Begins With That Letter; CMHR stands for Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z CMHR Pictures

*Underlined cities do not serve as links.

B 14

Baldwyn 12

• Battle of Brices Cross Roads (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=8365
• Battle of Brice's Cross Roads (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=8367
• Brice's Cross Roads, June 10, 1864 (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Stop 5, Brice's Crossroads Auto Tour; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=62170
• Brice's Cross Roads, First Main Battle Line (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Brice's Crossroads Auto Tour; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=62172
• Confederate's First Battle Line Formed Here (Civil War); Dedicated 1957; Located Bethany Road; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=62106
• Confederate's Second Battle Line (Civil War); Dedicated 1957; Located Bethany Road; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=62110
• Federal Cavalry and Artillery Formed First Battle Lines Here (Civil War); Dedicated 1957; Located Bethany Road; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=62108
• General Barteau's Flank Movement (Civil War); Dedicated 1957; Located Ripley Road; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=61957
• General Sturgis' Supreme Effort (Civil War); Dedicated 1957; Located MS Highway 370; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=5738
• Spoils of War (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located small park at the Tishomingo Creek bridge; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=61930
• Tishomingo Creek Bridge (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located small park at the Tishomingo Creek bridge; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=61927
• Union Wagon Train (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown Located Stop 7, Brice's Crossroads Auto Tour; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=62176

Biloxi 2

• Military Order of the Purple Heart Monument (All Wars); Dedicated January 22, 2005; Located Glennan Park
• Monument (World War I, World War II); Dedicated - Unknown; Located - Undetermined

C 23

Charleston 2

• Hagar Shive, Post 116 Memorial (World War I, World War II, Korea); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Courthouse
• Monument (Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Persian Gulf); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Courthouse

Cleveland 2

• Bolivar County Confederate Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated 1908; Located Bolivar County Courthouse
  
• Bolivar County Veterans Memorial (World War I, World War II); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Courthouse
  

Corinth 14

• A Beehive of Activity (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located intersection North Fillmore and Cruise Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=51752
• Alcorn County War Memorial (All Wars); Dedicated 1985; Located - Undetermined
  
• Battle of Corinth (Civil War); Dedicated 1988; Located North Fulton Road; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=50324
• Battery F, Battle of Corinth (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located intersection Bitner Road and Scenic Lake Drive; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=66613
• Corinth Confederate Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated 1992; Located South Cass Street, ease side of the Alliance Building; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=37280
• Decision at the Crossroads (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located intersection Jackson Street and Cruise Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=63296
• Fort Robinette (Civil War); Dedicated 1955; Located intersection N. Fillmore and Linden Streets; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=66738
• Generals' Headquarters (Civil War); Dedicated 1963; Located Jackson Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=66558
• Grant's Headquarters (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Jackson Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=21157
• Johnston's Headquarters (Civil War); Dedicated 1857; Located Fillmore Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=29280
• Retreat from Battery F (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located intersection Bitner Road and Scenic Lake Drive; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=66689
• Texas Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated 2010; Located Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=42632
• Union Troops at Corinth (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located intersection North Fillmore and Cruise Streets; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=51755
• View Toward Batteries Robinett and Williams (Civil War); Dedicated North Fillmore Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=29273

Coila 1

• Sgt. John A Pittman, Medal of Honor Recipient (Korea); Dedicated 2005; Located County Route 23; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=62805

Collins 1

• Covington County Veterans Memorial (World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam); Dedicated 2002; Located Covington County Courthouse

Columbus 2

• Confederate Decoration Day (Civil War); Dedicated 1957; Located 3rd Street South; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=8552
• Lowndes County Confederate Monument (Civil War); Dedicated August 9, 1912; Located Courthouse
  

Covington County 1

• PFC Mack A. Jordan, Medal of Honor Recipient (Korea); Dedicated July 1976; Located - Undetermined

D 1

Decatur

• Sherman at Decatur (Civil War); Dedicated 2009; Locatedway intersection Highway 15 and 7th Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=51160

E 1

Ellisville

• Skirmish at Rocky Creek (Civil War); Dedicated 2001; Located State Highway 588; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=61931

G 8

Gainesville

• Gainesville Volunteers (Civil War); Dedicated 2000; Located Interstate 10, Milepost 2;http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=8755

Greenville

• Memorial (World War II); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Washington Street
• Private Robert T. (Bobby) Henry, Medal of Honor Recipient (World War II); Dedicated - Unknown; Located South Main Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=62759
• Washington County Confederate Monument (Civil War); Dedicated 1903; Located Washington County Courthouse
• Washington County Veterans Memorial (World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Washington Street

Greenwood

• Confederate Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated October 9, 1913; Located - Undetermined
• Confederate Memorial Building (Civil War); Dedicated 1915; Located - Undetermined; http://www.greenwoodms.org/did_you_know.pdf
• Fort Pemberton Park Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated 1958; Located intersection US Highways 82 and 49 E; http://www.civilwaralbum.com/vicksburg/fort_pemberton.htm

H 2

Hattiesburg

• Veterans of All Wars Monument (All Wars); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Green Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=50898
• Forrest County Confederate Monument (Civil War); Dedicated 1910; Located intersection North Main Street and Eaton Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=39867

I 5

Iuka

• 11th Ohio Battery (Civil War); Dedicated 2009; Located intersection Heritage and Veterans Memorials Drives; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=51749
• Battle of Iuka (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Veterans Memorial Drive; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=51750
• Brig. General Henry Little (Civil War); Dedicated 2009; Located Battleground Drive; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=51748
• Patriot William Gray (American Revolution); Dedicated 2013; Located Battleground Drive; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=66891
• Tishomingo County Confederate Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated May 1, 1902; Located - Undetermined
  

J 2

Jackson

• Monument to Women of the Confederacy (Civil War); Dedicated 1917; Located State Capitol Building; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=16720
• USS Mississippi; Dedicated 1909; Located Mississippi State Capitol; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=5142

L 1

Lorman

• Civil War Skirmish; Dedicated 1964; Located intersection State Highway 552 and Lower Mississippi Great River Road (Interstate 61); http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=6411

M 5

Macon

• Confederate Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated 1901; Located County Courthouse

Meridian

• Lauderdale County Confederate Monument (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located
  
• Meridian's "C" Battery "C" Battery (All Wars); Dedicated September 4, 2000; Located Meridian Union Station; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=60059
• Spirit of the American Doughboy (World War I); Dedicated November 11, 1927; Located intersections of 6th and 7th Streets; http://doughboysearcher.weebly.com/meridian-mississippi.html
• Veterans Memorial (All Wars); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Highland Park
  

N 6

Natchez

• Cannon (Spanish-American War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Veterans Memorial Park
  
• Confederate Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated April 26, 1890; Located Veterans Park
  
• DAR and The Natchez Trace (Civil War); Dedicated May 21, 2005; Located Lissie Street/Old Cotton Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=42629
• Fort Rosalie (American Revolution); Dedicated 1988; Located 100 Orleans Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=5143
• Veterans Monument (All Wars); Dedicated - Unknown; Located - Undetrmined
  

Newton

• Confederate Hospital (Civil War); Dedicated 1966; Located intersection South Main and East First Streets; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=51172

O 3

Ocean Springs

• Ocean Springs World War I Memorials; Dedicated 1927; Located Government Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=25827
• Vietnam War Memorial; Dedicated - Unknown; Located City Hall

Oxford

• Confederate Soldiers Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated 1921; Located near Tad Smith Coliseum, University of Mississippi campus

P 4

Picayune

• The "Hancock Rebels" (Civil War); Dedicated 2007; Located I-59 Welcome Center/Louisiana Border; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=49065

Pontotoc

• Major General William Colbert (War of 1812); Dedicated 1987; Located North Main Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=33859

Port Gibson

• Battle of Port Gibson (Civil War); Dedicated 2005; Located intersection Main/Market Streets and Carrol Street/Rodney Road; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=35542

Purvis

• Lamar County War Memorial (World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam); Dedicated 1983; Located Old Lamar County Courthouse

R 3

Raymond

• Battle of Raymond (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Mississippi Route 18; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=26145
• Confederate Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated April 28, 1908; Located Hinds County Courthouse
  

Redwood

• Snyder's Bluff (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Mississippi Route 3; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=65009

S 2

Seminary

• Veterans Memorial (World War II, Korea, Vietnam); Dedicated - Unknown; Located old depot

Starkville

• Monument (All Wars); Dedicated November 11, 2013; Located Courthouse Square

T 5

Tunica

• Town of Tunica Veterans Memorial (All Wars); Dedicated - Unknown; Located South Main Street; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=51764

Tupelo

• Battle of Tupelo (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located intersection West Main Street and Monument Drive; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=5739
• Battle of Tupelo, Western Campaign (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located intersection West Main Street and Monument Drive; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=6784
• Lee County Memorial (World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Courthouse

Tylertown

• Monument (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located - Unknown (Note:  See picture at the bottom of this page)
  

V 16

Vicksburg

• 1st and 3rd Mississippi Infantry Regiments, Mississippi African American Monument (Civil War); Dedicated 2004; Located Grant Avenue; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=42187
• 3rd Battery, Ohio (Civil War); Dedicated May 22, 1905; Located Union Avenue
  
• 31st Infantry Division (World War I, World War II); Dedicated May 2000; Located Warren County Courthouse
  
• Arkansas Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated August 2, 1954; Located Vicksburg National Military Park
  
• Battery Benton (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Navy Circle; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=39567
• Illinois Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated October 26, 1906; Located Vicksburg National Military Park
  
• Iowa Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated November 15, 1906; Located Vicksburg National Military Park
  
• Louisiana Monument (Civil War); Dedicated June 11, 1887; Located Monroe Street
  
• Michigan Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated November 10, 1916; Located Union Avenue at the Battery DeGolyer
  
• Minnesota Memorial, Statue of Peace (Civil War); Dedicated May 24, 1907; Located Union Avenue; http://peace.maripo.com/p_civil_war.htm
• Missouri Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated October 17, 1917; Located Vicksburg National Military Park
  
• Surrender Interview Site (Civil War); Dedicated - Unknown; Located Pemberton Avenue; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=5991
• Tennessee Memorial (Civil War); Dedicated June 29, 1996; Located Confederate Avenue
  
• US Navy Memorial (Civil War, Vicksburg Campaign); Dedicated December 1, 1911; Located Vicksburg National Military Park
  
• USS Cairo (Civil War); Dedicated 1990; Located Vicksburg National Military Park; http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=35953
• Warren County Memorials (World War I); Dedicated 1923; Located Monroe Street
  

Mississippi's Blue Star/State Memorial Highways - None Found

Mississippi's National Cemetery's

• Biloxi National Cemetery, 400 Veterans Avenue, Biloxi, MS - http://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/biloxi.asp
• Corinth National Cemetery, 1551 Horton Street, Corinth, MS - http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/corinth.asp
• Natchez National Cemetery, 41 Cemetery Road, Natchez, MS - http://www.cem.va.gov/CEM/cems/nchp/natchez.asp

Mississippi's VA Hospitals

• Gulf Coast Veterans Health Care System, 400 Veterans Avenue, Biloxi, MS - http://www.biloxi.va.gov/
• G.V. (Sonny) Montgomery VA Medical Center, 1500 E Woodrow Wilson Drive, Jackson, MS - http://www.jackson.va.gov/

Mississippi's Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients, includes recipients born in Mississippi but medal credited to another state.

For more detailed information on the Recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor, please visit:

• http://www.cmohs.org/
• http://www.homeofheroes.com/moh/states/ma_other.html

Barfoot, Van Thomas
Brown, Wilson
Commiskey, Sr., Henry Alfred
Diamond, James H.
Dorley, August
Freeman, Ed W.
Freeman, Martin
Hanson, Jack G.
Heard, John William
Henry, Robert T.

Jordon, Mack A.
Lee, Hubert Louis
Lindsey, Sr., Jake William
Madison, James Jonas
Pittman, John Albert
Slaton, James Daniel
Welborn, Ira Clinton
Wheat, Roy Mitchell
Wilson, Jr., Louis Hugh

Pictures

Tylertown, Mississippi
Civil War Monument
Picture used with Permission of Pam Keaton

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