Whiting H. Magee served in Company A, 22nd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, Confederate States of America. On July 20, 1864, he was severely wounded at Peach Tree Creek in Georgia. He was transferred to a hospital in Macon, Georgia where he recovered and returned to his outfit at Atlanta.
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WHITTING H. MAGEE
Another veteran and Christian gentleman sleeps the last long sleep till God shall cause the last reveille to be sounded when we veterans and comrades of the civil war will form company and be mustered into the new and more blessed life of the Christian soldier. No, no, I don't think it will be to these time worn and scarred bodies, that have served us so long in this life, but in a new and glorified body in the image of our God. Comrade Magee, a veteran of the Civil war, after a protracted and painful illness, on the night of June 11, 1915, at 12 o'clock a.m., being 81 years, 4 months and 9 days old, crossed the river. The evil that separates this life of probation from the higher and better life was rended and his humble but loyal and upright spirit was permitted to pass into the higher and better life.
He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, three daughters, one sister, two brothers and a host of relatives and friends. He has been my friend and neighbor for nearly twenty-five years. We have lived in less than a mile of each other without even a cross fence between us, without a ripple or murmer. Comrade Magee was not possessed of an abundance of this world's goods, but he was a hard worker and lived well and was a hospitable and liberal entertainer and lived up to the Scriptural injunction, "Owe no man."
He was thrice married. He has told me who was the wife of his young and strong manhood, but I don't remember; but the result of this union was one son who was killed while in the service of the I. C. R. R., and two daughters who with other loved ones stood by with their great love and cheered and supported him in his last battle.
Just as the deep and ominous rumblings of the strife between the North and South began to be indistinctly heard this gentle spirited wife and mother was called by God, and the humble home was left desolate without a mother or wife.
But his sisters were loyal and helped him to comfortably provide for their pledges of love. And the ominous rumblings became more and more distinctly audible and this Southland of ours began to realize of a truth, that the fanatacism of the North was at our throats with sinister designs and this was too much for the best and purest Anglo-Saxon blood of the world and the young manhood of the South heard the call of our Southland to arms and the response was almost unanimous and instantaneous. Comrade Magee was one of the Spartan band that answered this call. I do not recall the command he served with, but he was with Joseph E. Johnston in the Georgia campaign, was in the Peachtree street fight in front of Atlanta, and was severally and dangerously wounded in this fight, but his ardor was not at all dampened. As soon as his wound was sufficiently healed he was with his command on the skirmish line doing yeoman service.
Whitting Magee was one of that strong populous Magee families that settled in Lawrence, Simpson and Covington counties, and did so much in giving cast and prominence of the peculiar characteristics of the people of these counties - frugality, hospitality and loyalty.
Comrade Magee was born in Lawrence County on Silver Creek. He was one of the seventeen children - thirteen boys and four girls. And listen, ten of these brothers at the same time were in the army fighting the higherling hordes of the North for a principle that the whole nation now admits - State rights.
Comrade Magee was a life long member of the Baptist church, loyal and consistent. After the war was over Comrade Magee married Mrs. Polk, mother of Mrs. Barney Slay. His last and surviving wife was Miss Fannie Howell, sister of Mr. Solon and Pink Howell and Mrs. Fogg of Crystal Springs.
Comrade Magee was possessed of a large per centage of Chritian graces, if not all. He was born February 2, 1834, and died June 11, 1915.
Bye bye, Friend and Comrade, will miss you, but not for long.
J. B. ENOCHS
Published in The Prentiss Headlight, Prentiss, Mississippi, July 29, 1915
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WHITTING H. MAGEE
Another veteran and Christian gentleman sleeps the last long sleep till God shall cause the last reveille to be sounded when we veterans and comrades of the civil war will form company and be mustered into the new and more blessed life of the Christian soldier. No, no, I don't think it will be to these time worn and scarred bodies, that have served us so long in this life, but in a new and glorified body in the image of our God. Comrade Magee, a veteran of the Civil war, after a protracted and painful illness, on the night of June 11, 1915, at 12 o'clock a.m., being 81 years, 4 months and 9 days old, crossed the river. The evil that separates this life of probation from the higher and better life was rended and his humble but loyal and upright spirit was permitted to pass into the higher and better life.
He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, three daughters, one sister, two brothers and a host of relatives and friends. He has been my friend and neighbor for nearly twenty-five years. We have lived in less than a mile of each other without even a cross fence between us, without a ripple or murmer. Comrade Magee was not possessed of an abundance of this world's goods, but he was a hard worker and lived well and was a hospitable and liberal entertainer and lived up to the Scriptural injunction, "Owe no man."
He was thrice married. He has told me who was the wife of his young and strong manhood, but I don't remember; but the result of this union was one son who was killed while in the service of the I. C. R. R., and two daughters who with other loved ones stood by with their great love and cheered and supported him in his last battle.
Just as the deep and ominous rumblings of the strife between the North and South began to be indistinctly heard this gentle spirited wife and mother was called by God, and the humble home was left desolate without a mother or wife.
But his sisters were loyal and helped him to comfortably provide for their pledges of love. And the ominous rumblings became more and more distinctly audible and this Southland of ours began to realize of a truth, that the fanatacism of the North was at our throats with sinister designs and this was too much for the best and purest Anglo-Saxon blood of the world and the young manhood of the South heard the call of our Southland to arms and the response was almost unanimous and instantaneous. Comrade Magee was one of the Spartan band that answered this call. I do not recall the command he served with, but he was with Joseph E. Johnston in the Georgia campaign, was in the Peachtree street fight in front of Atlanta, and was severally and dangerously wounded in this fight, but his ardor was not at all dampened. As soon as his wound was sufficiently healed he was with his command on the skirmish line doing yeoman service.
Whitting Magee was one of that strong populous Magee families that settled in Lawrence, Simpson and Covington counties, and did so much in giving cast and prominence of the peculiar characteristics of the people of these counties - frugality, hospitality and loyalty.
Comrade Magee was born in Lawrence County on Silver Creek. He was one of the seventeen children - thirteen boys and four girls. And listen, ten of these brothers at the same time were in the army fighting the higherling hordes of the North for a principle that the whole nation now admits - State rights.
Comrade Magee was a life long member of the Baptist church, loyal and consistent. After the war was over Comrade Magee married Mrs. Polk, mother of Mrs. Barney Slay. His last and surviving wife was Miss Fannie Howell, sister of Mr. Solon and Pink Howell and Mrs. Fogg of Crystal Springs.
Comrade Magee was possessed of a large per centage of Chritian graces, if not all. He was born February 2, 1834, and died June 11, 1915.
Bye bye, Friend and Comrade, will miss you, but not for long.
J. B. ENOCHS
Published in The Prentiss Headlight, Prentiss, Mississippi, July 29, 1915
Whiting H. Magee served in Company A, 22nd Regiment, Mississippi Infantry, Confederate States of America. On July 20, 1864, he was severely wounded at Peach Tree Creek in Georgia. He was transferred to a hospital in Macon, Georgia where he recovered and returned to his outfit at Atlanta.
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WHITTING H. MAGEE
Another veteran and Christian gentleman sleeps the last long sleep till God shall cause the last reveille to be sounded when we veterans and comrades of the civil war will form company and be mustered into the new and more blessed life of the Christian soldier. No, no, I don't think it will be to these time worn and scarred bodies, that have served us so long in this life, but in a new and glorified body in the image of our God. Comrade Magee, a veteran of the Civil war, after a protracted and painful illness, on the night of June 11, 1915, at 12 o'clock a.m., being 81 years, 4 months and 9 days old, crossed the river. The evil that separates this life of probation from the higher and better life was rended and his humble but loyal and upright spirit was permitted to pass into the higher and better life.
He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, three daughters, one sister, two brothers and a host of relatives and friends. He has been my friend and neighbor for nearly twenty-five years. We have lived in less than a mile of each other without even a cross fence between us, without a ripple or murmer. Comrade Magee was not possessed of an abundance of this world's goods, but he was a hard worker and lived well and was a hospitable and liberal entertainer and lived up to the Scriptural injunction, "Owe no man."
He was thrice married. He has told me who was the wife of his young and strong manhood, but I don't remember; but the result of this union was one son who was killed while in the service of the I. C. R. R., and two daughters who with other loved ones stood by with their great love and cheered and supported him in his last battle.
Just as the deep and ominous rumblings of the strife between the North and South began to be indistinctly heard this gentle spirited wife and mother was called by God, and the humble home was left desolate without a mother or wife.
But his sisters were loyal and helped him to comfortably provide for their pledges of love. And the ominous rumblings became more and more distinctly audible and this Southland of ours began to realize of a truth, that the fanatacism of the North was at our throats with sinister designs and this was too much for the best and purest Anglo-Saxon blood of the world and the young manhood of the South heard the call of our Southland to arms and the response was almost unanimous and instantaneous. Comrade Magee was one of the Spartan band that answered this call. I do not recall the command he served with, but he was with Joseph E. Johnston in the Georgia campaign, was in the Peachtree street fight in front of Atlanta, and was severally and dangerously wounded in this fight, but his ardor was not at all dampened. As soon as his wound was sufficiently healed he was with his command on the skirmish line doing yeoman service.
Whitting Magee was one of that strong populous Magee families that settled in Lawrence, Simpson and Covington counties, and did so much in giving cast and prominence of the peculiar characteristics of the people of these counties - frugality, hospitality and loyalty.
Comrade Magee was born in Lawrence County on Silver Creek. He was one of the seventeen children - thirteen boys and four girls. And listen, ten of these brothers at the same time were in the army fighting the higherling hordes of the North for a principle that the whole nation now admits - State rights.
Comrade Magee was a life long member of the Baptist church, loyal and consistent. After the war was over Comrade Magee married Mrs. Polk, mother of Mrs. Barney Slay. His last and surviving wife was Miss Fannie Howell, sister of Mr. Solon and Pink Howell and Mrs. Fogg of Crystal Springs.
Comrade Magee was possessed of a large per centage of Chritian graces, if not all. He was born February 2, 1834, and died June 11, 1915.
Bye bye, Friend and Comrade, will miss you, but not for long.
J. B. ENOCHS
Published in The Prentiss Headlight, Prentiss, Mississippi, July 29, 1915
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WHITTING H. MAGEE
Another veteran and Christian gentleman sleeps the last long sleep till God shall cause the last reveille to be sounded when we veterans and comrades of the civil war will form company and be mustered into the new and more blessed life of the Christian soldier. No, no, I don't think it will be to these time worn and scarred bodies, that have served us so long in this life, but in a new and glorified body in the image of our God. Comrade Magee, a veteran of the Civil war, after a protracted and painful illness, on the night of June 11, 1915, at 12 o'clock a.m., being 81 years, 4 months and 9 days old, crossed the river. The evil that separates this life of probation from the higher and better life was rended and his humble but loyal and upright spirit was permitted to pass into the higher and better life.
He leaves to mourn his loss a wife, three daughters, one sister, two brothers and a host of relatives and friends. He has been my friend and neighbor for nearly twenty-five years. We have lived in less than a mile of each other without even a cross fence between us, without a ripple or murmer. Comrade Magee was not possessed of an abundance of this world's goods, but he was a hard worker and lived well and was a hospitable and liberal entertainer and lived up to the Scriptural injunction, "Owe no man."
He was thrice married. He has told me who was the wife of his young and strong manhood, but I don't remember; but the result of this union was one son who was killed while in the service of the I. C. R. R., and two daughters who with other loved ones stood by with their great love and cheered and supported him in his last battle.
Just as the deep and ominous rumblings of the strife between the North and South began to be indistinctly heard this gentle spirited wife and mother was called by God, and the humble home was left desolate without a mother or wife.
But his sisters were loyal and helped him to comfortably provide for their pledges of love. And the ominous rumblings became more and more distinctly audible and this Southland of ours began to realize of a truth, that the fanatacism of the North was at our throats with sinister designs and this was too much for the best and purest Anglo-Saxon blood of the world and the young manhood of the South heard the call of our Southland to arms and the response was almost unanimous and instantaneous. Comrade Magee was one of the Spartan band that answered this call. I do not recall the command he served with, but he was with Joseph E. Johnston in the Georgia campaign, was in the Peachtree street fight in front of Atlanta, and was severally and dangerously wounded in this fight, but his ardor was not at all dampened. As soon as his wound was sufficiently healed he was with his command on the skirmish line doing yeoman service.
Whitting Magee was one of that strong populous Magee families that settled in Lawrence, Simpson and Covington counties, and did so much in giving cast and prominence of the peculiar characteristics of the people of these counties - frugality, hospitality and loyalty.
Comrade Magee was born in Lawrence County on Silver Creek. He was one of the seventeen children - thirteen boys and four girls. And listen, ten of these brothers at the same time were in the army fighting the higherling hordes of the North for a principle that the whole nation now admits - State rights.
Comrade Magee was a life long member of the Baptist church, loyal and consistent. After the war was over Comrade Magee married Mrs. Polk, mother of Mrs. Barney Slay. His last and surviving wife was Miss Fannie Howell, sister of Mr. Solon and Pink Howell and Mrs. Fogg of Crystal Springs.
Comrade Magee was possessed of a large per centage of Chritian graces, if not all. He was born February 2, 1834, and died June 11, 1915.
Bye bye, Friend and Comrade, will miss you, but not for long.
J. B. ENOCHS
Published in The Prentiss Headlight, Prentiss, Mississippi, July 29, 1915
Family Members
Siblings
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Rachel Magee Upton
1823–1894
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Catherine "Kitsie" Magee Atwood
1824 – unknown
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Irving Magee
1825–1905
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John J Magee
1828–1898
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Bluen Magee
1830–1902
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Jackson Calvin "Jack" Magee
1831–1905
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Tobias Magee Jr
1834–1904
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Mier Magee
1837–1865
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George Washington Magee
1838–1907
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Thomas Jefferson Magee
1839–1915
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William Ira Magee
1841–1919
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Nancy Jane Magee Coulter
1843–1923
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Hiram "Hi" Magee
1845–1914
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Elizabeth "Bettie" Magee Berry
1846–1909
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Philip Magee
1851–1927
