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• Benton, Samuel    b. October 18, 1820  d. July 28, 1864
  Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. A nephew of Senator Thomas Hart Benton, he was probably born in Williamson County, Tennessee. In early life he taught school, later setting in Holly Springs, Mississippi, where he became a prominent lawyer and politician. Benton represented Marshall County in the State Legislature in the Secession Convention of 1861, which led Mississippi out of the Union. Entering the Civil War as a Captain in the old 9th Mississippi, a twelve-month regiment, he was...[Read More] (Bio by: Robert Patterson)
  Hillcrest Cemetery, Holly Springs (Marshall County), Marshall County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Doxey, Wall    b. August 8, 1892  d. March 2, 1962
  US Congressman and Senator. He was admitted to the bar in 1914 and opened a law practice in Holly Springs, Mississippi. From 1915 to 1923, he was prosecuting attorney of Marshall County, and district attorney for the third judicial district of Mississippi, 1923 to 1929. In 1929, he was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first Congress and to the six succeeding Congresses, serving until 1941. To fill the vacancy caused by the death of Pat Harrison, he was elected as a Democrat to the US Senate...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Hillcrest Cemetery, Holly Springs (Marshall County), Marshall County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Featherston, Winfield S.    b. August 8, 1820  d. May 28, 1891
  Civil War Confederate Brigadier General, US Congressman. Prior to the Civil War, he served as a Mississippi, elected Democrat to the Thirtieth and Thirty-first Congresses, serving 1847 to 1851. After Mississippi seceded from the Union, he raised a regiment in the 17th Mississippi Infantry and was appointed it's Colonel. He fought at the Battle of Ball's Bluff and for gallantry, was commissioned Brigadier General in March 1862. He led a brigade in the Army of Virginia during the Peninsula...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Hillcrest Cemetery, Holly Springs (Marshall County), Marshall County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Govan, Daniel Chevillette    b. July 4, 1829  d. March 12, 1911
  Civil War Confederate Brigadier General. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he entered the Confederate Army and was appointed Colonel in command of the 2nd Arkansas Infantry Regiment. He led the 2nd Arkansas in the Battles of Shiloh and was given command of the brigade at the Battle of Chickamauga in 1862. Promoted Brigadier General in 1863, his command consisted of the 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th Arkansas Infantry Regiments, which participated in the Atlanta Campaign. In 1864, he was captured at the...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Hillcrest Cemetery, Holly Springs (Marshall County), Marshall County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Nabers, Benjamin Duke    b. November 7, 1812  d. September 6, 1878
  US Representative from Mississippi. He had moved to Hickory Flat, Mississippi, was a commission merchant and held several local offices. He was elected as a Unionist to the Thirty-second Congress and served March 4, 1851 To March 3, 1853. Unsuccessful Unionist candidate for reelection, he moved to Memphis, Tennessee, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1860. Later that year he was a presidential elector on the Constitutional-Union ticket of Bell and Everett. He returned to Mississippi...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Hillcrest Cemetery, Holly Springs (Marshall County), Marshall County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Revels, Hiram Rhodes    b. September 27, 1827  d. January 16, 1901
  Clergyman, Educator, US Senator. He became the first black citizen to be elected to the U.S. Senate (1870-1871). He was ordained a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in (1845).
  Hillcrest Cemetery, Holly Springs (Marshall County), Marshall County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Trotter, James Fisher    b. November 5, 1802  d. March 9, 1866
  US Senator. A practicing lawyer in Hamilton, Mississippi, he was a Judge of the Circuit Court of Mississippi in 1838 when he was appointed to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate from Mississippi. He served less than a year. Following his Senate service, he was a Mississippi Supreme Court Judge from 1839 to 1842, Professor of Law at the University of Mississippi from 1860 to 1862, and a Circuit Court Judge from 1866 until his death later that year. (Bio by: Garver Graver)
  Hillcrest Cemetery, Holly Springs (Marshall County), Marshall County, Mississippi, USA
   
• Walthall, Edward Cary    b. April 4, 1831  d. April 21, 1898
  Civil War Confederate Major General, US Senator. At the start of the Civil War, he was District Attorney of the court at Holly Springs, Virginia, when commissioned a Colonel in the 29th Virginia Regiment in April 1862. Promoted Brigadier General in 1863, he fought at Chickamauga, Chattanooga and at Missionary Ridge. He was promoted to Major General in command of the Army of Mississippi and fought his last battle at Tupelo, in April 1865. After the war, he resumed legal practice and was...[Read More] (Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith)
  Hillcrest Cemetery, Holly Springs (Marshall County), Marshall County, Mississippi, USA
   

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