Biographies, Photos and Anecdotes
Company E

Asst. Surgeon Chauncey Porter Conerly

Chauncey Porter Conerly was born in 1839 and resided in Holmesville, Pike County, Mississippi.

After enlisting in the Holmesville Guards, Co. E, of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry, he was appointed hospital steward in November 1863. He later was promoted to acting Assistant Surgeon of the 33rd and Clerk of Chief Surgeon P.F. Whitehead, Loring's Division.

Resource Records of Pike/Walthall Counties Mississippi, 1798-1910 by Luke Ward Conerly and E. Russ Williams, Jr.

Additional Information: Chauncey Porter Conerly married Margaret McCullough. He died in 1903 in Lincoln County. Mississippi and is buried in the Winston McCullough Cemetery near Ruth, Mississippi.

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Pvt. Fleming Tynes Conerly

Fleming "Flem" Tynes Conerly was born October 3, 1843 and resided in Pike County, Mississippi. He married Sarah Hammonds.

He enlisted in the Holmesville Guards of Pike County in the spring of 1862. This unit later became Company E of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment. He was wounded at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee on November 30, 1864.

Following his death on May 13, 1910, he was buried at China Grove, Pike County, Mississippi.

Resource Records of Pike/Walthall Counties Mississippi, 1798-1910 by Luke Ward Conerly and E. Russ Williams, Jr.

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Pvt. James Rayford Conerly

James Rayford Conerly was born November 2, 1835. A resident of Pike County, Mississippi, he married Mary Elizabeth Harper and had nine children.

In the spring of 1862, he joined the Holmesville Guards of Pike County, which later became Company E of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment.

He died at the age of 76 on April 9, 1911.

Resource Records of Pike/Walthall Counties Mississippi, 1798-1910 by Luke Ward Conerly and E. Russ Williams, Jr.

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Pvt. Mark Russell Conerly

Mark Russell Conerly was born in 1838. As a resident of Pike County, Mississippi he married Sophronia Taylor.

In the spring of 1862 he joined the Holmesville Guards of Pike County, which later became Company E of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment.

He died in 1890 at the age of 52.

Resource Records of Pike/Walthall Counties Mississippi, 1798-1910 by Luke Ward Conerly and E. Russ Williams, Jr.

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2gt. Sgt./Ensign Owen Lewis Conerly

Owen Lewis Conerly was born September 15, 1830 in Pike County, Mississippi to Cullen Conerly and Levisa Lewis. From his marriage to Saleta Azalena Paine Warner on November 4, 1852, there were six children born.

In the spring of 1862, he joined the Holmesville Guards of Pike County, which later became Company E of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment. He was elected 2nd Sergeant and later became the color bearer. At the age of 34 he was killed in action at the battle of Franklin, Tennessee on November 30, 1864 and is buried there.

Resource Records of Pike/Walthall Counties Mississippi, 1798-1910 by Luke Ward Conerly and E. Russ Williams, Jr.

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Pvt. William Marion Conerly

William Marion Conerly was born July 30, 1833 in Pike County, Mississippi to Cullen Conerly and Levisa Lewis. He married Jane Ann Harvey on January 5, 1855.

When the Holmesville Guards were organized in Pike County in the spring of 1862, he enlisted. This unit later became Company E of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment.

He died November 23, 1901 in Hornbeck, Louisiana.

Resource Records of Pike/Walthall Counties Mississippi, 1798-1910 by Luke Ward Conerly and E. Russ Williams, Jr.

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Pvt. Newland Jack Ginn

Newland Jack Ginn, born 16 Nov. 1827 in Pike County, Mississippi, was the eldest son of Huriah Ginn and Salina Ann Smith. On 7 Dec. 1854 in Pike County, MS, Jack married Mrs. Louisa Bullock Brumfield (widow of John G. Brumfield - d/o Hugh Bullock & Caroline Brumfield). Jack and Louisa made their home about 2 miles north of Knoxo (now located in Walthall County) along with Louisa’s son from her previous marriage and three sons and one daughter of their own.

In April 1862, at Holmesville, Pike County, Mississippi, Jack enlisted as a Private in the Holmesville Guards, Company E., of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry. The following July found Jack fighting a losing battle with measles in camp at Grenada, Mississippi. He died on the 16th of July, 1862 and when word reached his wife, Louisa, she rode horseback to Summit, Mississippi, the nearest railway station, with the intention of trying to catch a northbound train to retrieve his body. Arriving late, she spent the night with friends and learned the following morning that a train from the north carrying the bodies of several soldiers had arrived around dawn. Newland Jack’s body was one of them. He was buried in the Jap Holmes Cemetery, Walthall Co., MS. Louisa Ginn never remarried.

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Captain John Tillman Lamkin

John T. Lamkin  was born in Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, July 17, 1811. Around 1847 he served as District Attorney in Bay Saint Louis, Hancock County, Mississippi and was a law partner with David Wiley
Hurst.

Lamkin was a "Unionist", like his former law partner Hurst, but felt obligated to support his state. Having moved to Pike County, the 51-year old former District Attorney enlisted more than seventy volunteers in the "Holmesville Guards" which became Company E of the 33rd Mississippi Infantry Regiment in April of 1862, serving as Captain.

On September 9, 1863 Lamkin resigned due to medical reasons.

He was soon elected to serve in the Second Confederate Congress. From May 2, 1864-March 18, 1865 he served on three committees: commerce, patents, post offices and post roads. While serving in Virginia, he wrote, "The time has come when every man who has a spark of patriotism in his bosom should promptly volunteer his services."

He died in Holmesville, Pike County, Mississippi, May 19, 1870 and is buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Summit, Mississippi.

Photo: Resource Records of Pike/Walthall Counties Mississippi, 1798-1910 by Luke Ward Conerly and E. Russ Williams, Jr.
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Pvt. Evan C. Rushing

Evan C. Rushing (son of Wiley J. Rushing) was born December 2, 1847, Pike County, MS and died September 6, 1904 in Pike County, MS. He was a POW and was paroled from the Hospital at Vicksburg, MS July 4, 1863.

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Pvt. Levi Richmond Rushing

Levi Richmond Rushing, son of Jack Claiborne Rushing (about 1795-1872), was born September 2, 1828, Pike County, MS and died March 6 1892, Walthall County, MS. (Part of Pike County was divided and added to Walthall County around 1900, so he lived and died in basically the same area.)

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Pvt. Matthew Rushing

Matthew Rushing, son of Jack Claiborne Rushing (about 1795-1872), was born about 1841 or 1842 in Pike County, MS. He died in 1866 and is buried in Breeland Cemetery in Walthall County, MS.

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Pvt. Norvel E. Rushing

Norvel E. Rushing, son of Jack Claiborne Rushing (about 1795-1872), was born 1835 in Pike County, MS and died 1916 in Walthall County, MS. (Part of Pike county was divided and added to Walthall County around 1900, so he lived and died in basically the same area.)

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Pvt. Silas C. Rushing

Silas C. Rushing, son of Jack Claiborne Rushing (about 1795-1872), was born 1842 in Pike County, MS. He died as a POW February 19, 1865 of Typhoid Fever in Camp Douglas in IL (in what is now part of the city of Chicago). He was wounded and captured in the Battle of Peachtree Creek, just outside of Atlanta, GA in July of 1864.

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Pvt. Uriah Kent Rushing

Uriah Kent Rushing, son of Jack Claiborne Rushing (about 1795-1872), was born 1837 in Pike County, MS, died 1905 in Livingston Parish, LA. He was a POW and was paroled from the Hospital at Vicksburg, MS July 4, 1863.

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Pvt. Wiley J. Rushing

Wiley J. Rushing, son of Jack Claiborne Rushing (about 1795-1872), Wiley was replaced in Co. E by his oldest child, Evan C. Rushing and later joined Co. H. For more information: his bio is listed under Co. H.

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