Location:
Beeks Road
Monroe County, Mississippi
N 33° 51.436 W088° 24.732
Find a Grave Cemetery: 57920
Date of Visit: May 7, 2017
GW Reeves
Co B
7 Miss Cav
CSA
Rueben E. Taylor
Co H
2 Miss Inf
CSA
2 Lt
TR Jones
Co B
3 Miss Inf
CSA
RY Ausborn
Co H
2 Miss Cav
CSA
Lafayette Mitchell
Co J
14 Miss Inf
CSA
DM Cooper
Co C
3 SC Inf
CSA
In this cemetery is a tombstone for James A. Beeks. It is
inscribed:
James A Beeks
March 11 1841
Oct 4 1864
James A. Beeks, about age 20, enlisted in 1861 in Captain
S.A. Gholston’s company of Monroe County volunteers. This company became
Company I of the 14th Mississippi Infantry. James was captured at
Fort Donaldson in 1862 and shipped to Camp Douglas in Illinois. He remained at
this prisoner of war camp until September of 1862 when he and the regiment was
shipped back to Vicksburg for parole and exchange which occurred on October 7,
1862. In 1863 he was present for musters at Newton Station, Mississippi and
Canton, Mississippi. On December 4, 1863 on furlough at home. He returned to
duty and served in operation around Mississippi until the regiment was ordered
to Demopolis in the Spring of 1864. The 14th was a part of Loring Division
was ordered to Georgia to reinforce Johnston in front of a large Union army in
northern Georgia. James’s name appears on a roster of soldiers due a bounty that
was dated April 1, 1864 in Demopolis, Alabama. The next day the regiment set
out on a march to Montevallo, Alabama. James is reported as deserting on April
4 while on this march. There are no other records.
- Compiled
Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from
the State of Mississippi. Original data from: The
National Archives, Entry for James
A. Beeks, 14th Mississippi Infantry, Retrieved from at 3-Fold
February 26, 2020 (http://www.fold3.com)..
- Compiled
Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from
the State of Alabama. Original data from: The National Archives,
Unit Information Company I 14th Mississippi Infantry, Retrieved
from at 3-Fold February 26 2020 (http://www.fold3.com).
- Dunbar Rowland, The Official and
Statistical Register of the State of Mississippi, Volume 2, version GoogleBooks (Nashville: Brandon Printing
Company, 1908), https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=GiI48lqMC3cC&pg=GBS.PP12),
p.661
