Civil War Index

Tishomingo County Mississippi

Union Veterans and Widows of Tishomingo Co. 1890

Graves of Civil War Veterans Buried in Tishomingo County

Roddy's Cavalry

Tishomingo County Civil War Units

Civil War Applications ( Partial List )

Thirty-Second Mississippi Regiment 32

Baxter's Battalion Co. A

19th. Mississippi Co. K

Confederate Soldiers and Widows Tishomingo County 1908

Confederate Soldiers and Widows Tishomingo County 1911

Confederate Soldiers and Widows Tishomingo County 1913

Tishomingo County Riflemen Co. A 2nd. Ms. Regiment

Iuka Rifles 1861-1865 Co. K ( Roster of enlisted men )

Letter of a Union Soldier

Last Confederate Vet

Unknown Union Soldiers Last Letter

Camp Iuka
Iuka Mississippi
July 6th. 1862

Again I take the pen in hand to write you a few lines to let you know how I am getting along. I am well and hearty again and I sincerely hope these few lines may find you in the enjoyment of the same blessing. I will discharge this cook of yours if he don't hurry and get my dinner for I am so hungry that I can hardly write. But I guess I won't say anything about discharging him for he is getting up a pretty good dinner for himself and Luke and I and I can afford to wait a little longer on that account. But if I don't hurry he will have it ready before I get this wrote. So now for a race. The weather is very very hot down here so hot that it will nearly melt anyone that goes out of the shade in the heat of the day. There is a good supply of flys down here there is just seventeen million to a man. I will never complain about flys again when I get back to Ohio. We have plenty of company here running through our tents such as toads lizards & snakes I expect you think that such things would not be very agreeable company but then you know one can get used to any kind of company. Well we have plenty of fruit down here we have been living on blackberries for three weeks and there seems to be no end them yet. Apples and peaches are getting ripe and there is a great abundance of them here. We have green corn green beans and green men and new potatoes here and almost all kinds of garden stuff, that you can think of, Butter is only forty cents a pound eggs thirtyfive cents a dozen and all other things have prices about the same but I don't believe you care anything about the prices for I don't think you will come here to market. Well I will have to close for this time excuse this scribbling for I was in a hurry to get it done before all got dinner ready and I have beat him write soon all of you. Love to all, your sincere friend Nelson

I came by the letter through an old coon hunting buddie of mine up here in Michigan, his hometown was LaFollette Tn. He knew I was interested in the civil war, and told me about a friend of his from the Franklin area who had several items from the war. He mentioned the letter in particular, because my wife's hometown is Iuka.

When I spoke to the man, he told me an elderly lady on the the farm next to his showed him several military items, among them a pistol and holster, belt, leather bag, sword and some letters. She relayed how her grandfather shot a union soldier crossing his farm. She told him her family had kept all his personal items all these years.
So Bobbie, I really don't know who wrote the letter or to whom it was sent. I guess it made it no futher than that farm. I have checked varios Ohio rosters trying to find a Nelson, but so far with no success.
Thank You
Ron Stecz

Last Confederate Vet in Tishomingo County Dies;

The last Confederate veteran in Tishomingo County, John Fuson Grimes, died at the home of his son, George Grimes, near Holcut Miss. early Saturday morning. He was 93 years, 5 months and 21 days old and had lived in Tishomingo County ever since he was 6 years old, moving here with his parents from Fayette, Miss., in 1852 and settling within five mile of where he died.
As a boy of about ten he had attended the big celebration held at the new town of Iuka, when the golden spike marking the completion of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad was driven. Fifty years later he saw the completion of the Birmingham division of the Illinois Central and from his home high on a hill he could see the trains run over the land which his father had settled in the long ago.
In those nearly 100 years of existence he had seen the primitive log school houses with the split log benches and clay floors where the blue-back speller was the chief book used give way to the brick consolidated school. One which he could see from his home. He had seen the slow moving ox wagon give way to the swift moving automobile and airplane.
Too young to enlist at the beginning of the Civil War he saw service the last two years with Roddy under Forrest and was in several important battles.
Funeral services were conducted at Cross Roads cemetery Sunday afternoon.
Besides the son with whom he made his home, he left one daughter, Mrs. T.F. Hall, of Huntsville, Ala.,fifteen grandchildren and seventeen great grandchildren. Tishomingo County Vidette February 06, 1940

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Other Tishomingo County Civil War Records

4th Alabama "Roddey's" CS Cavalry and NW Alabama Genealogy

Alton in the Civil War list of Confederate prisoners

26th Mississippi Infantry CSA

Fifteenth Mississippi Infantry Regiment CSA

Iuka Civil War Letter

Mississippi Civil War Information

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