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James Marion Hawkins

14 Jul 1831 – 20 Apr 1864

Birth14 Jul 1831
Death20 Apr 1864
Added byLarry Turner on 09 Jan 2018
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James Marion Hawkins was born 7/14/1831 in Crawford Co. Mo. His parents moved from Greenville South Carolina to Mo. in 1830. He was born on the family farm 3 miles south of St. James ,Mo. and a few miles north of the old Iron works on the dry fork. The farm is now called the Ver Camp farm and the family cemetery where many of the family are buried is still there about 100 yards west of the highway and about 1/4 mile north of the dry fork bridge. His father & mother and other relatives are buried there. James Marion married Rachel Counts Holloman about 1850-51. Since Rachels uncles had bought a plantation in Yazoo co. Mississippi they immediately moved there where he worked as an overseer on the Holloman plantation. Some of there children were born on this plantation. For some reason the family moved back to Mo. before 1860 where they lived with his father on the family farm between St James and the old iron works. In August 1862 James Marion and his brother Phillip Eaton Guidry and a cousin Andrew Wellborn enlisted in the confederate army and was enrolled in Shannon Co. They were enlisted in 1862 and in 8/19/1863 James was made a corporal. The army described Him as follows, eyes black,hair dark,complexion dark,height 6 feet. The unit was Co. E 8th Missouri infantry CSA. After James joined the army Rachel and her children moved to Arcadia where they lived with her father Allan Holloman. When the union army under Gen Nathaniel Banks started the Red River campaign to capture Shreveport his company was called to assist Gen. Taylor's command to defend Shreveport. The advance guards met at Mansfield La. and after a battle the union army began a rapid retreat. The Confederate army caught up with them at Pleasant Hill La. where a major battle was fought. James Marrion in the color guard was mortally wounded. The bullet went through his wrist and in to the abdomen. Most think he died at Mansfield, LA.. A lot of wounded was taken from Mansfield to Jefferson Tx. but his wounds were bad enough I doubt he made the trip. The 8 th Missouri lead the attack at Plesant Hill. They had made it to the edge of town when they saw they were going to be out flanked and were orderd to pull back. It was at this time that James was wounded. This information came from a letter to the family from the commanding officer who saw him go down and carried off the battle field.

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