The following words are from the prayer which opened the Mississippi State Convention in 1861:
And now, Heavenly Father, we commend to Thy special care and blessing the welfare and interests of the several
nationalties, of our own, and distant lands. Bring the day of general peace; stay the hand that seeks the blood of a brother; let truth and charity prevail, that Thy name may be glorified in all the earth. Forgive all our sins--let them not be visited retributively on our homes, or our country. Make us Thy people, and deliver us from all evil, and may we never have occasion to regret the steps we are about to take in the great work that now lies before us. These favors and blessings we humbly implore in the name, and through the merits of our Lord Jesus Christ. Amen.C. K. Marshall
The monument sits on the grounds of the courthouse in the
center of the town. The units that it honors are from Noxubee County, MS.
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(The Incident in the Woods - Civil War Combat)
(The Incident in The Woods Without the Pictures)
(The Cast)
(Excerpts from the Civil War records of Samuel G. Eaves)
(Civil War Monument at Macon, Mississippi)
(Civil War Monument at Brooksville, Mississippi)
(Credits for Images and Civil War Links)
(11th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment "Perrins" History)
(9th Mississippi Sharpshooters)
(5th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, CSA History)
(Company
E, 5th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, CSA, Unit Roster)
(Mississippi Civil War Units)
(Mississippi
Civil War History Bulletin Board)
(Eaves Genealogy Bulletin
Board)
(Civil War Newspapers Transcribed)
(Civil War
Soldiers and Sailors System)
