Battle of Gettysburg<\/a>. The 11th Mississippi briefly penetrated the Union line, but was repulsed after incurring 336 casualties (or eighty-seven percent of their men). Only forty of the regiment\u2019s men emerged from the battle unscathed, while every soldier of Company A was wounded or killed. Captain Moore was wounded in the knee by an artillery shell during the attack, and eventually made his way back to Mississippi to recuperate.<\/p>\nMoore officially tendered his resignation as an officer in the 11th Mississippi on February 13, 1864. It is difficult to uncover Moore\u2019s activities during the final year of the Civil War. A few days after he left the Army, Moore was apparently captured by Union soldiers back home in Aberdeen. However, on May 9, 1864, a letter states that rumors that the wounded captain was \u201cresigned & disabled\u201d were untrue, and that he was actively raising a new company of soldiers for the Confederate Army. While Moore\u2019s service records ends in May 1864, he later testified that he surrendered in 1865 to the U.S. Army in Scooba, Mississippi\u2014a fact that would place him among the few state militia\u00a0soldiers remaining in rebellion during the final days of the Civil War.<\/p>\n
Despite his wound, Moore remained active during Reconstruction. After returning to his parents\u2019 home, he busied himself with managing the plantation alongside his mother. In October 1865, he attempted to raise a local militia company with Lucien J. Morgan (which is odd because records indicate the latter had been killed at Gettysburg).\u00a0 Despite the emancipation of their former slaves, the Moores remained as one of the wealthiest families in Monroe County according to the 1870 Federal Census.<\/p>\n
Stephen never married. By 1880, he was 44 years old, apparently unemployed, and living with his brother James\u2019s family. The 1900 Census lists him as a property lien clerk boarding with George and Zelda Bean of Okolona, Mississippi. When he eventually applied for a Confederate military pension, he was living on veteran\u2019s land in Vicksburg and had no surviving relatives besides James\u2019s daughters\u2014Mary Green, Carrie Gillespie, and Margaret Fulton. Stephen Moore was awarded a pension on September 8, 1902, and moved to Beauvoir on December 2, 1905. He was remembered in his obituary as a man whose \u201cbrilliant mind and extensive reading . . . fund of natural wit, and wealth of anecdote and reminiscence, made him a rare companion.\u201d<\/p>\n
Lead author: Allan Branstiter, Southern Miss history doctoral candidate. Lead researcher: Southern Miss History major Armendia Hulsey. Research also conducted by Southern Miss student Kayla Sims.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When\u00a0Stephen Cocke Moore\u00a0was 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… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biographies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217,"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beauvoirveteranproject.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}