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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 34. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.25 (search)
History of Quitman Rifles. From the New Orleans Picayune, April 22, 1906. Historic command, organized in 1859, composed of Pike County's pride. Holmesville, Miss., April 21, 1906. The occasion of the reunion of surviving Confederate veterans at Holmesville raises the curtain and brings to view scenes presented heuitman Guards. The company then was composed of the young men and some of the married men of the town and immediate vicinity. In the year 1860 the ladies of Pike County formed a Banner Society for the purpose of raising funds to have a handsome banner made to present to the Quitman Guards, in which the following named married his relic of theirs framed and deposited in the Hall of Fame at Jackson, with a suitable record of those instrumental in its presentation and return to them. Pike county sent out eleven companies, besides Garland's Battalion, into the Confederate service. Preston Brent, who organized the Quitman Guards in 1859, also organized