When the north-south line of the Iron Mountain Railroad was completed in 1882 the town of Wynne was located when a train derailed leaving one boxcar, without wheels, off the track. The car was placed upright and called Wynne Station in
compliment . . . — — Map (db m256099) HM
Grant's long and vulnerable railroad supply line to Holly Springs originated in Columbus, Kentucky, and ran outh along the Mobile & Ohio and Mississippi Central railroads. On December 19, 1862, Brigadier General Nathan B. Forrest's Confederate . . . — — Map (db m183931) HM
Near the Salem Street bridge over the Mississippi Central Railroad Van Dorn's cavalry column divided into three attacking parties. The first moved to subdue the Union cavalry at the Marshall County Fairgrounds. The second attacked the infantry . . . — — Map (db m200172) HM
Prisoners at Alton Military Prison
The Alton Military Prison was inhabited by four different classes of prisoner, Confederates, civilians, Federal soldiers and a group called guerillas or bushwhackers.
Confederate prisoners of war made up . . . — — Map (db m211487) HM
This Gothic villa, probably designed by
the firm of the distinguished architect
Samuel Sloan, was built in 1858 for a
reported $40,000 by wealthy planter William
Henry Coxe on a fifteen-acre tract purchased
in 1857. The massive cast iron gates . . . — — Map (db m200084) HM
The Nathan Bedford Forrest Boyhood Home, the only surviving house of three that the Forrest family occupied in the northern end of Marshall County, is located a quarter mile ahead of you. In 1830, Forrest's father, William Forrest, bought the . . . — — Map (db m196648) HM
Located on the hilltop 500 feet southwest of here. Fry Cemetery typifies rural valley-and-ridge community cemeteries of the 1800s. The Fry family emigrated from Virginia to this area when it was still part of the Mississippi Territory. Revolutionary . . . — — Map (db m261863) HM
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* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
