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• Bowen, John Stevens    b. October 30, 1830  d. July 13, 1863
  Civil War Confederate Major General. He graduated from the US Military Academy in 1856, was commission officer in the US Mounted Rifles and served on the frontier until resigning in 1856, to become an architect. When the Civil War began, he was commissioned Captain in the Missouri State Guard and quickly rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. After being captured at Camp Jackson and prisoner exchanged, he assumed command of the Confederate 1st Missouri Infantry as Colonel in June, 1861. In...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Cause of death: Dysentery
  Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Brooke, Walker    b. December 25, 1813  d. December 18, 1869
  US Senator. Served as a United States Senator from Mississippi from 1852 to 1853. Also served as a Member of the Mississippi State House of Representatives in 1848, Member of the Mississippi State Senate in 1850, Delegate to the Mississippi Secession Convention in 1861, and Delegate from Mississippi to the Confederate Provisional Congress from 1861 to 1862. (Bio by: K)
  Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Catchings, Thomas Clendinen    b. 1847  d. 1927
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Mississippi's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1885 to 1901. (Bio by: K)
  Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Coleman, Nicholas Daniel    b. April 22, 1800  d. May 11, 1874
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Kentucky 's 2nd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1829 to 1831. Also served as a Member of the Kentucky State Legislature.
  Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Collier, James William    b. September 30, 1872  d. September 28, 1933
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Mississippi's 8th District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1909 until his death in 1933. Also served as a Member of the Mississippi State House of Representatives from 1896 to 1899.
  Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Garrott, Isham Warren [cenotaph]    b. 1816  d. June 17, 1863
  Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. Born in Anson City, North Carolina, he graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1840, and became an attorney in Marion, Alabama. In 1845, he was elected to the Alabama House of Representatives on a split ticket with Andrew B. Moore, and was reelected to his position in 1847. A member of the Whig political party, he was an active Mason, a member of the Siloam Baptist Church, an incorporator of the Marion and Alabama River Transportation...[Read More] (Bio by: Kit and Morgan Benson)
  Cause of death: Killed in action
  Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Green, Martin Edwin [cenotaph]    b. June 3, 1815  d. June 27, 1863
  Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. He was killed by an enemy sharpshooter during the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi. He has a memorial military marker in Vicksburg's Soldiers Rest Confederate Cemetery, but the exact location of his remains in unknown, and may not even be in Mississippi.
  Cause of death: Gunshot to the head
  Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Henry, Patrick    b. February 15, 1861  d. December 28, 1933
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Mississippi's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1901 to 1903. Also served as a Member of the Mississippi State Senate from 1888 to 1890, Delegate to the Democratic National Convention from Mississippi in 1896, and 1928, and Circuit Judge from 1900 to 1901. (Bio by: K)
  Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Jeffords, Elza  b. May 23, 1826  d. March 19, 1885
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Mississippi's 3rd District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1883 to 1885. Also served as a State Court Judge in 1868. (Bio by: K)
  Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Lake, William Augustus  b. January 8, 1808  d. October 15, 1861
  US Congressman. Elected to represent Mississippi as At-Large in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1855 to 1857. Also served as a Member of the Maryland State Legislature in 1831, Member of the Mississippi State Senate in 1848, and Member of the Mississippi State House of Representatives in 1859. He was killed in a duel with Henry Cousins Chambers, his opponent for the Confederate Congress. (Bio by: K)
  Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, USA
   
• McClung, Alexander Keith   b. June 14, 1811  d. March 23, 1855
  American Folk Figure. A nephew of Chief Justice John Marshall, McClung moved to Mississippi in 1832. Although his career included serving as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Mexican War and as the U.S. Charge d'Affaires to Bolivia between 1849 and 1851, McClung's chief fame in nineteenth-century America was for his dueling. One famous series of duels involved the Menifee family of Kentucky. It is said that after killing John Menifee in Vicksburg, McClung, who was called "The Black Knight of the...[Read More] (Bio by: NM)
  Cedar Hill Cemetery, Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi, USA
   

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