East Carroll Parish, Louisiana Genealogy

From "A Place to Remember", by Georgia Payne Durham Pinkston "The troops of General McPherson and Ransum were stationed in ...

Right after the happenings of Quantrill's Raiders and the ten Federal guerrillas, a Colonel Forsham, a splendid gentleman, (for all he w...

From "A Place to Remember", by Georgia Payne Durham Pinkston. "One night Lieutenant Powell & Surgeon McCormick, of a Tex...

This article was written by Mrs. Annie Delony Alston, Historian of the Edward Sparrow Chapter of U. D. C., Lake Providence, La. "In the...

from "A Place to Remember", by Georgia Payne Durham Pinkston "We attended the ball and supper at the Fireman's Hall, giv...

from "A Place to Remember", by Georgia Payne Durham Pinkston "The finest opportunity of hearing brilliant and classical mus...

On February 5, 1863, on a cold winter's day, Catherine Shelby Blackburn, the widow of Dr. David Flournoy Blackburn, after her family’s ...

The Briarfield Rebels did some fine service during the Siege of Port Hudson where the Briarfields were active in capturing a Federal wagon ...

This story from "Camp-fire Stories of the Mississippi Valley Campaign", by Marie Louise Benton Bankston When General Grant and his...

NOTE: [AT BOTTOM OF THIS POST] On May 1, 1862 New Orleans was occupied by the Federal Forces. Cotton bales all along the Mississippi River f...

NOTE: (at end of this post) Bechtel, Sergeant John died at Lake Providence, La., March 21, 1863 Contributed by Joanne Scobee Morgan morgans...

I have been informed that John Millikin was here since before 1812. Millikin held a Spanish claim for land in the very northeast corner of ...

"The earliest settler that I have found that remained living in the L. P. area is Warren Magruder Benton. I have found him here and the...

RETURNING: "Thus, it was to a ravaged and bitter land that the weary veterans returned from the easter battlefields. Maimed and scarred...

This came out of Georgia Pinkston’s book “A Place to Remember” During the first months of 1861, military companies were formed throughout Lo...

1st Kansas Regiment For years, researchers have been aware of a small blurb that appeared in an 1863 edition of the Poughkeepsie (NY)Telegra...

I ran across this in the book "Slavery & the Constitution", by William Ingersoll Bowditch. It is a notice from a newspaper fr...

AN UGLY CUSTOMER.--Our friend Billy Alexander, who, by-the-way, is quite a Nimrod, and the acknowledged champion shot in the country, killed...

Richard Martin , stationed at Lake Providence, La. (From Clara Martin's autobiography) Richard Martin, aged 21 years, of Ireland, left ...

From "A Place to Remember", by Georgia Payne Durham Pinkston

From "A Place to Remember", by Georgia Payne Pinkston AN IMMENCE GATHERING, FINE SPORT, A DELIGHTUL DAY, & A GRAND BALL AT ...

( Poverty Point Brochure) A Rich Culture flourished Eight Centuries before Christ The time was eight centuries after Egyptian slaves dragged...

In conjunction with the attacks on Milliken's Bend and Young's Point launched on June 7, Confederate General Richard Taylor ordered ...

"Mr. Bob Brawley, of Virginia, sent to me a package that contained a collection of articles concerning the original owners of the Arlin...