When Stephen Cocke Moore was born in 1836 in Monroe County, Mississippi, the nearby town of Aberdeen was little more than an unincorporated settlement on the banks of the Tombigbee River. His parents, Lucien and Rebecca of Tennessee, were among the first white pioneers to settle the area during the land rush that followed the Treaty of…
Secessionism swept over Mississippi like a fever after the election of Abraham Lincoln to the White House, and Neshoba County was no exception. Charles A. Nash’s father, Ira Sr., strongly opposed secession despite the fact that he was a born-and-bred Southerner and wealthy slaveholder. The elder Nash had been a prominent leader in the county during the…
Mary Jane Beverly was born around 1846 in Anson County, North Carolina, a rural county dominated by large planters and merchants with little room for people like her parents, Lewis and Susan, to advance in life. Sometime between 1846 and 1848, the Beverly’s joined a tide of migrants who moved out from the Carolinas and into…
Descriptions of the lives of the men and women who resided at Beauvoir are coming soon! Until then, here is a 1927 recording of Private Laurentine Higbie singing “Veteran’s Last Song” at the age of 85 years.
AAbout Us — Beauvoir Veteran Project Staff Director: Susannah J. Ural, Ph.D. is a professor of history and co-director of the Dale Center for the Study of War & Society at the University of Southern Mississippi. A US military historian/war and society scholar by training, Ural specializes in the Civil War era and much of…
