This boulder is erected by the Mississippi
College Rifles Chapter U. D. C.
in grateful memory of the 104 men who went
out from this college as Company E; 18th
Mississippi Regiment, April 23, 1861.
J. W. Welborn, Capt., Cuddie Thomas, 1st Lieut.,
Joseph Buckles, 2nd Lieut., J. H. York, 3rd Lieut.,
Mike Carney, 1st Sergeant, W. H. Lewis, 2nd Sergeant.
Company E. went into action at the 1st Battle
of Manassas. On many a hard fought battle
field their blood was shed. Manassas, Leesburg,
Richmond, Malvern Hill, Seven Pines, Chickamauga
Sharpsburg, The Wilderness, Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, terrible Gettysburg and others.
In 1862 W. H. Lewis of Clinton was elected Capt.
of the Mississippi College Rifles.
On the 9th of April 1865, with the Army of Northern Va.
which surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse
was the remnant of the Mississippi College Rifles.
Of the 104 men who enlisted only 8 returned.
Valiant men whom the world speaks of as
soldiers of a lost cause yet whose names have
gone down in history wearing a deathless fame
1926
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