Photo: Marker is located at the Civil War era Coker House.

Photographer: Mark Hilton
Taken: October 24, 2017
Caption: Marker is located at the Civil War era Coker House.
Additional Description: Once one of the few remaining structures associated with the Battle of Champion Hill, the Coker House was a one-story Greek Revival house, built around 1852 by H. B. Coker, a popular citizen and farmer. The interior layout followed the traditional central hall plan, having two rooms on each side. Bullet holes in the front door and jambs and cannonball holes on the west side of the structure provided evidence of this bloody and decisive battle. Falling into extreme disrepair, the Coker House was restored by the Mississippi Department of Archives and History in 2008.
Submitted: November 3, 2017, by Mark Hilton of Montgomery, Alabama.
Database Locator Identification Number: p402476
File Size: 14.979 Megabytes

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