TO ARMS MISSISSIPPI!!!!!! For Company H, Coonewah Rifles...

[Johnny Lloyd]

Contact johnny_lloyd@hotmail.com when you register on the official website below to let him know you will be there in Company H!

http://www.westernindependentgrays.org/manassas150/

Check out Company H's Facebook event page here!

FOLLOW ME TO MANASSAS!!!

[Johnny Lloyd]

Re: TO ARMS MISSISSPPI!!!!!! For Company H, Coonewah Rifles...

Attention to orders:

We're looking right now to make a group purchase of Justin Runyon's great red Mississippi battleshirts at the special price of only $80 each!!! Standby for further information on this deal! :tounge_sm

:wink_smil-Johnny

[42va.reb]

Re: TO ARMS MISSISSIPPI!!!!!! For Company H, Coonewah Rifles...

Mr Llyod,
Sent you a PM about the event.

Thanks,

[Johnny Lloyd]

Re: TO ARMS MISSISSIPPI!!!!!! For Company H, Coonewah Rifles...

BUMP!

Yahoo group kindly set-up by 1st Sgt. Art Stone here. Facebook Group here also. Check them out, join-up, and we'll see you in the field!

[Pious Jeems]

Re: TO ARMS MISSISSIPPI!!!!!! For Company H, Coonewah Rifles...

2nd Regt, Mississippoi Volunters, Company H formed at Chesterville Mississippi. This company was also known as the Coonewah Rifles. The coonewah is a small river or stream that runs from near Chesterville in Lee County to Tupelo where it connects with the town creek and other small streams in the area and then emptys into to the Tombigbee. This creek runs south, southeast down to Shannon in modern Lee Co. MS. I am sure you have this info as it is now a little late. The CHESTERVILLE community was settled in 1830, the first families coming from South Carolina. It is now a small settlement in Lee County, but was originally in the Northeastern part of Pontotoc County.

Tom Shelton and Bill and Matt Buggs, from Alabama, blazed the trail from Chesterville settlement around 1838 by clearing small plots of wooded sections and selling to the real settlers who came in from South Carolina and Georgia around 1840.

James Wiley, son of Duncan Wiley and Sarah Martin and maternal great uncle of Mrs. Allie Adams Carruth, of Chesterville, scouting for new territory rode on horseback from Chester District, South Carolina around 1838, found this territory desirable, and rode back with the information. This resulted in the migration of his kinsmen and friends to this spot around 1840.

Duncan Wiley was born in 1780 and died in 1840; his wife, Sarah Martin Wiley, was born in 1791 and died in 1864.

Among the early settlers was William B. Lilly, a captain of the Palmetto Regiment of South Carolina, during the Mexican War, 1846 - 1847, and was awarded a gold medal (now in C. E. Lilly's possession) for distinguished service in the following and other battles: Vera Cruz, Chepultapec, Contreas, Cherabusco, Cerita de Velen.


http://msgw.org/pontotoc/wpa/wpachesterville.htm

[Johnny Lloyd]

Re: TO ARMS MISSISSIPPI!!!!!! For Company H, Coonewah Rifles...

Thanks for the info, Dean! I know since these boys came from your neck of the woods they must mean much to you. We will do their memory great justice!