Samuel Leist was born on March 6, 1831 in Oberbipp, Switzerland and died on November 17, 1920. He was the son of Jacques (Jacob) b. 1808 believed to be in Oberbipp, Switzerland and Marie Reber (Mary) b. 1805 . After arriving in America, first settling in Van Wert County, Ohio then Samuel moved to Issaquena County, Mississippi at Mound View Plantation in 1858. The plantation consisted of 721 acres, 278 acres in Sharkey County and 443 acres in Issaquena County. Also on the plantation was a well known boat landing called "Leist Landing", a cotton gin, store, 1-room schoolhouse and other homes. The cotton gin burned in late October 1899. Leist Landing site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The site# is 22sh520;22N1. The plantation was near Harworth. Sam served in the Confederate army while his brother Jacques Jr served in the Northern Army, state of Ohio, during the Civil War. He was buried at Mound View Plantation on "the Holly Mound", a flat top Indian mound that also served as a burial ground for many of the Leist family. After the death of Samuel in 1920 and the loss of the plantation in 1923, Samuel's son, Albert Leist and his family moved to 1615 Openwood Street, Vicksburg, MS in 1923.
Sam's Civil War pension application, death certificate, as well a the original passport of his family when they came to America is attached on the findagrave.com memorial # 32160378. He was wounded being hit 4 times in the thumb and hand during the first battle of Shiloh in the Civil War.He lost partial use of his hand as a result of his injuries.
Death of Mr. Sam Leist Sr.
In the death of Mr. Samuel Leist Sr., at Mound View, this county, which is situated on the Yazoo River which event occurred on the 17th of November 1920. Issaquena County lost one of its oldest and best of citizens.
Mr. Leist was 89 years of age and had lived in this county for many, many years. He was here years before any of the country living along Steel's Bayou was opened up, and bought, owned and sold hundreds of acres of woodland- in those times he was in the timber business. He was an interesting talker, could tell you the ups and downs of events that occurred in this section of the country right after the civil war. How timbered land was bought and sold at $1.25 an acre and how only the very best of timber was cut and how millions of dollars worth cut, and thrown in the bayou's(sp) to rot or float away.
He raised a family of eight sons and up to a few years ago he was as active as any of them.
He was a good man. Peace be to his ashes.
Sam Leist was in Warren County, Mississippi and had been a resident of Vicksburg, Warren County since 1858, when he enlisted in the Confederate Army in Co. E 3rd CSA under Capt. Kelp? in June 1861 and he served throughout the War until the surrender of Joseph E Johnson Army in North Carolina at Bennett Place, sometimes known as Bennett Farm, in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, which was the site of the largest surrender to Union General William T Sherman of Confederate soldiers ending the American Civil War in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida on April 26, 1865.
He was sick in ?? Georgia.He served as a teamster from 7-1-1863 to 9-30-1863 at the rate of .25 per day. and again as a private in 5 Confederate roll of non-commissioned officers and privates employed on extra duty at Cartersville, GA during the month of Oct 1863, nature of service: Teamster, term of service 1 Oct 1863 to 5 Oct 1863, transferred to Maj. G W Triplett 6 Oct 1863 and from Cobham, GA Mar 7, 1864 fo 29 Feb 1864 for a period of 29 days at the rate of .25 per day.
3rd Mississippi Battalion Starts the Battle of Shiloh
To celebrate the dedication of the New Mississippi Monument in the park we will be featuring different Mississippi Units and their actions at the Battle of Shiloh, next is the 3rd Mississippi Battalion, the first Confederate unit to see action at the Battle of Shiloh.
The 3rd Mississippi Battalion was made up of a number of infantry companies formed in the summer of 1862 and organized from different parts of the state of Mississippi. By November 1861 there were seven companies which were assigned to Aaron B. Hardcastle, a former army officer.
Aaron Hardcastle was from the eastern shore of Maryland where his parents died when he was young and he was raised by relatives in St. Louis. In 1855, when he was 19, his brother, Edmund, who had attended West Point, obtained an appointment for Aaron as a 2nd lieutenant in Company F of the 6th U.S. Infantry. Hardcastle would serve on the plains and would be sent to reinforce the Utah Expedition led by Albert Sidney Johnston. Arriving after the conflict was resolved, the 6th U. S. Infantry marched on to California. Hardcastle served under Captain Lewis Armistead in the Mojave Expedition of 1858-59 and in 1861 was stationed at San Diego, California. Hardcastle resigned with Armistead and other southern officers and made his way across the desert with the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles with Gen. Johnston.
In September 1861, Hardcastle was appointed a captain of Confederate Infantry and assigned the task of mustering troops into service at Vicksburg, Mississippi. In November he was assigned command of the 3rd Mississippi Battalion of Infantry which he organized in December at Camp Anderson, near Jackson, Mississippi. Four of the companies were sent to New Orleans while the other three under Hardcastle were sent to Bowling Green, Kentucky. When Johnston's army retreated after the fall of Fort Donelson the unit was reunited at Corinth, Mississippi around March 20th.
Hardcastle's Battalion, of about 280 men were assigned to the brigade of Gen. S.A.M. Wood and placed in front of the brigade as pickets/ guards, on the night of April 5, 1862, just prior to the planned Confederate attack. At 4:55 A.M. the advance party of the unit, under Lt. Felix W. Hammoc were attacked by a Union patrol of five companies under the command of Major James Powell of the 25th Missouri Infantry. The advance fell back to the Battalion line and a fire fight began in the half light. At a range of 200 yards the two sides fired, inflicting the first casualties of the Battle of Shiloh. At first the Union fire was high but soon found its mark resulting in the loss of 4 killed and 20 wounded in the 3rd Mississippi Battalion. At about 6:30 A.M. the 3rd Mississippi Battalion fell back to the right flank of the brigade line and the Confederate advance began. As the line advanced Major Hardcastle advanced ahead of the battalion which advanced to his right, losing contact with the major. After Gen. Benjamin Prentiss' Division was pushed back by the Confederate attack, Hardcastle was reunited with his Battalion as they joined the attack on McClernand's Division near Review Field. In the intense fighting the unit lost a number of men including Capt. Joel Hughes of Company D. In the afternoon of April 6th the Battalion was assigned to support a battery of artillery near Duncan Field and at 5 PM was assigned to guard prisoners and escort them toward Corinth. On April 7th Major Hardcastle led the battalion back toward the battlefield where they took a position on the left engaging part of Gen. Lew Wallace's Division. While fighting there, Capt. Robert H. McNair of Company E, who stood exposed cheering his men on, was mortally wounded.
The 3rd Mississippi Battalion helped cover the retreat of the army back to Corinth where they were joined by two companies from Alabama and one from Mississippi to form the 33rd Mississippi Regiment. soon redesignated the 45th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. Hardcastle was elected colonel of the new regiment. After being posted near Farmington, Mississippi during the siege of Corinth the 45th Mississippi would join Bragg's invasion of Kentucky and fight at Perryville on October 8, 1862.
They would later see action at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga. Hardcastle would not be with the unit in these actions since he had been kicked by a horse and fractured his leg. While he recovered Hardcastle served as post commander at Dalton, Georgia, and Aberdeen, Mississippi before returning to the unit in November 1863. The 45th Mississippi would fight at Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, and during the Atlanta Campaign. In January 1863 Col. Hardcastle signed Gen. Patrick Cleburne's letter proposing recruitment of slaves for use in the Confederate army, an action frowned on by many in the Confederacy at that time. Cleburne, now their Divisional commander would praise their actions at Resaca and New Hope Church but due to the decrease in their numbers, the 45th Mississippi was declared an illegal regiment and turned back into a battalion.
This would leave Col. Hardcastle without a command and he would revert to the rank of Captain until he was assigned to a military court late in the war. Hardcastle would marry Alice Hatch who he had met in Aberdeen, and he would run a store there. Due to the disordered situation in Mississippi after the war he eventually moved back to Maryland where he died in 1915.
Samuel Leist first married Mary Jane Derrick in 1867. They had 2 children before Mary Jane's death: Louisa born Feb 16, 1869 died 3 Jul, 1871 and Samuel T. born May 22, 1870, died on Feb 10, 1943. Samuel T. never married and is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, Ms next to his half-brother Albert Frederick Leist and wife Ella Harris Leist.
Samuel then married Adeline Melissa Bellinger on 18 January, 1872 at Christ Episcopal Church in Vicksburg, MS.
For info on their children click on each childs name to go to their memorial at findagrave.com.
Death of Mr. Sam Leist Sr.
In the death of Mr. Samuel Leist Sr., at Mound View, this county, which is situated on the Yazoo River which event occurred on the 17th of November 1920. Issaquena County lost one of its oldest and best of citizens.
Mr. Leist was 89 years of age and had lived in this county for many, many years. He was here years before any of the country living along Steel's Bayou was opened up, and bought, owned and sold hundreds of acres of woodland- in those times he was in the timber business. He was an interesting talker, could tell you the ups and downs of events that occurred in this section of the country right after the civil war. How timbered land was bought and sold at $1.25 an acre and how only the very best of timber was cut and how millions of dollars worth cut, and thrown in the bayou's(sp) to rot or float away.
He raised a family of eight sons and up to a few years ago he was as active as any of them.
He was a good man. Peace be to his ashes.
link to Leist passport translation: https://www.patandmeloakes.com/LeistPassport.html
Sam's Civil War pension application, death certificate, as well a the original passport of his family when they came to America is attached on the findagrave.com memorial # 32160378. He was wounded being hit 4 times in the thumb and hand during the first battle of Shiloh in the Civil War.He lost partial use of his hand as a result of his injuries.
Death of Mr. Sam Leist Sr.
In the death of Mr. Samuel Leist Sr., at Mound View, this county, which is situated on the Yazoo River which event occurred on the 17th of November 1920. Issaquena County lost one of its oldest and best of citizens.
Mr. Leist was 89 years of age and had lived in this county for many, many years. He was here years before any of the country living along Steel's Bayou was opened up, and bought, owned and sold hundreds of acres of woodland- in those times he was in the timber business. He was an interesting talker, could tell you the ups and downs of events that occurred in this section of the country right after the civil war. How timbered land was bought and sold at $1.25 an acre and how only the very best of timber was cut and how millions of dollars worth cut, and thrown in the bayou's(sp) to rot or float away.
He raised a family of eight sons and up to a few years ago he was as active as any of them.
He was a good man. Peace be to his ashes.
Sam Leist was in Warren County, Mississippi and had been a resident of Vicksburg, Warren County since 1858, when he enlisted in the Confederate Army in Co. E 3rd CSA under Capt. Kelp? in June 1861 and he served throughout the War until the surrender of Joseph E Johnson Army in North Carolina at Bennett Place, sometimes known as Bennett Farm, in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, which was the site of the largest surrender to Union General William T Sherman of Confederate soldiers ending the American Civil War in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida on April 26, 1865.
He was sick in ?? Georgia.He served as a teamster from 7-1-1863 to 9-30-1863 at the rate of .25 per day. and again as a private in 5 Confederate roll of non-commissioned officers and privates employed on extra duty at Cartersville, GA during the month of Oct 1863, nature of service: Teamster, term of service 1 Oct 1863 to 5 Oct 1863, transferred to Maj. G W Triplett 6 Oct 1863 and from Cobham, GA Mar 7, 1864 fo 29 Feb 1864 for a period of 29 days at the rate of .25 per day.
3rd Mississippi Battalion Starts the Battle of Shiloh
To celebrate the dedication of the New Mississippi Monument in the park we will be featuring different Mississippi Units and their actions at the Battle of Shiloh, next is the 3rd Mississippi Battalion, the first Confederate unit to see action at the Battle of Shiloh.
The 3rd Mississippi Battalion was made up of a number of infantry companies formed in the summer of 1862 and organized from different parts of the state of Mississippi. By November 1861 there were seven companies which were assigned to Aaron B. Hardcastle, a former army officer.
Aaron Hardcastle was from the eastern shore of Maryland where his parents died when he was young and he was raised by relatives in St. Louis. In 1855, when he was 19, his brother, Edmund, who had attended West Point, obtained an appointment for Aaron as a 2nd lieutenant in Company F of the 6th U.S. Infantry. Hardcastle would serve on the plains and would be sent to reinforce the Utah Expedition led by Albert Sidney Johnston. Arriving after the conflict was resolved, the 6th U. S. Infantry marched on to California. Hardcastle served under Captain Lewis Armistead in the Mojave Expedition of 1858-59 and in 1861 was stationed at San Diego, California. Hardcastle resigned with Armistead and other southern officers and made his way across the desert with the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles with Gen. Johnston.
In September 1861, Hardcastle was appointed a captain of Confederate Infantry and assigned the task of mustering troops into service at Vicksburg, Mississippi. In November he was assigned command of the 3rd Mississippi Battalion of Infantry which he organized in December at Camp Anderson, near Jackson, Mississippi. Four of the companies were sent to New Orleans while the other three under Hardcastle were sent to Bowling Green, Kentucky. When Johnston's army retreated after the fall of Fort Donelson the unit was reunited at Corinth, Mississippi around March 20th.
Hardcastle's Battalion, of about 280 men were assigned to the brigade of Gen. S.A.M. Wood and placed in front of the brigade as pickets/ guards, on the night of April 5, 1862, just prior to the planned Confederate attack. At 4:55 A.M. the advance party of the unit, under Lt. Felix W. Hammoc were attacked by a Union patrol of five companies under the command of Major James Powell of the 25th Missouri Infantry. The advance fell back to the Battalion line and a fire fight began in the half light. At a range of 200 yards the two sides fired, inflicting the first casualties of the Battle of Shiloh. At first the Union fire was high but soon found its mark resulting in the loss of 4 killed and 20 wounded in the 3rd Mississippi Battalion. At about 6:30 A.M. the 3rd Mississippi Battalion fell back to the right flank of the brigade line and the Confederate advance began. As the line advanced Major Hardcastle advanced ahead of the battalion which advanced to his right, losing contact with the major. After Gen. Benjamin Prentiss' Division was pushed back by the Confederate attack, Hardcastle was reunited with his Battalion as they joined the attack on McClernand's Division near Review Field. In the intense fighting the unit lost a number of men including Capt. Joel Hughes of Company D. In the afternoon of April 6th the Battalion was assigned to support a battery of artillery near Duncan Field and at 5 PM was assigned to guard prisoners and escort them toward Corinth. On April 7th Major Hardcastle led the battalion back toward the battlefield where they took a position on the left engaging part of Gen. Lew Wallace's Division. While fighting there, Capt. Robert H. McNair of Company E, who stood exposed cheering his men on, was mortally wounded.
The 3rd Mississippi Battalion helped cover the retreat of the army back to Corinth where they were joined by two companies from Alabama and one from Mississippi to form the 33rd Mississippi Regiment. soon redesignated the 45th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. Hardcastle was elected colonel of the new regiment. After being posted near Farmington, Mississippi during the siege of Corinth the 45th Mississippi would join Bragg's invasion of Kentucky and fight at Perryville on October 8, 1862.
They would later see action at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga. Hardcastle would not be with the unit in these actions since he had been kicked by a horse and fractured his leg. While he recovered Hardcastle served as post commander at Dalton, Georgia, and Aberdeen, Mississippi before returning to the unit in November 1863. The 45th Mississippi would fight at Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, and during the Atlanta Campaign. In January 1863 Col. Hardcastle signed Gen. Patrick Cleburne's letter proposing recruitment of slaves for use in the Confederate army, an action frowned on by many in the Confederacy at that time. Cleburne, now their Divisional commander would praise their actions at Resaca and New Hope Church but due to the decrease in their numbers, the 45th Mississippi was declared an illegal regiment and turned back into a battalion.
This would leave Col. Hardcastle without a command and he would revert to the rank of Captain until he was assigned to a military court late in the war. Hardcastle would marry Alice Hatch who he had met in Aberdeen, and he would run a store there. Due to the disordered situation in Mississippi after the war he eventually moved back to Maryland where he died in 1915.
Samuel Leist first married Mary Jane Derrick in 1867. They had 2 children before Mary Jane's death: Louisa born Feb 16, 1869 died 3 Jul, 1871 and Samuel T. born May 22, 1870, died on Feb 10, 1943. Samuel T. never married and is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, Ms next to his half-brother Albert Frederick Leist and wife Ella Harris Leist.
Samuel then married Adeline Melissa Bellinger on 18 January, 1872 at Christ Episcopal Church in Vicksburg, MS.
For info on their children click on each childs name to go to their memorial at findagrave.com.
Death of Mr. Sam Leist Sr.
In the death of Mr. Samuel Leist Sr., at Mound View, this county, which is situated on the Yazoo River which event occurred on the 17th of November 1920. Issaquena County lost one of its oldest and best of citizens.
Mr. Leist was 89 years of age and had lived in this county for many, many years. He was here years before any of the country living along Steel's Bayou was opened up, and bought, owned and sold hundreds of acres of woodland- in those times he was in the timber business. He was an interesting talker, could tell you the ups and downs of events that occurred in this section of the country right after the civil war. How timbered land was bought and sold at $1.25 an acre and how only the very best of timber was cut and how millions of dollars worth cut, and thrown in the bayou's(sp) to rot or float away.
He raised a family of eight sons and up to a few years ago he was as active as any of them.
He was a good man. Peace be to his ashes.
link to Leist passport translation: https://www.patandmeloakes.com/LeistPassport.html
Samuel Leist was born on March 6, 1831 in Oberbipp, Switzerland and died on November 17, 1920. He was the son of Jacques (Jacob) b. 1808 believed to be in Oberbipp, Switzerland and Marie Reber (Mary) b. 1805 . After arriving in America, first settling in Van Wert County, Ohio then Samuel moved to Issaquena County, Mississippi at Mound View Plantation in 1858. The plantation consisted of 721 acres, 278 acres in Sharkey County and 443 acres in Issaquena County. Also on the plantation was a well known boat landing called "Leist Landing", a cotton gin, store, 1-room schoolhouse and other homes. The cotton gin burned in late October 1899. Leist Landing site was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. The site# is 22sh520;22N1. The plantation was near Harworth. Sam served in the Confederate army while his brother Jacques Jr served in the Northern Army, state of Ohio, during the Civil War. He was buried at Mound View Plantation on "the Holly Mound", a flat top Indian mound that also served as a burial ground for many of the Leist family. After the death of Samuel in 1920 and the loss of the plantation in 1923, Samuel's son, Albert Leist and his family moved to 1615 Openwood Street, Vicksburg, MS in 1923.
Sam's Civil War pension application, death certificate, as well a the original passport of his family when they came to America is attached on the findagrave.com memorial # 32160378. He was wounded being hit 4 times in the thumb and hand during the first battle of Shiloh in the Civil War.He lost partial use of his hand as a result of his injuries.
Death of Mr. Sam Leist Sr.
In the death of Mr. Samuel Leist Sr., at Mound View, this county, which is situated on the Yazoo River which event occurred on the 17th of November 1920. Issaquena County lost one of its oldest and best of citizens.
Mr. Leist was 89 years of age and had lived in this county for many, many years. He was here years before any of the country living along Steel's Bayou was opened up, and bought, owned and sold hundreds of acres of woodland- in those times he was in the timber business. He was an interesting talker, could tell you the ups and downs of events that occurred in this section of the country right after the civil war. How timbered land was bought and sold at $1.25 an acre and how only the very best of timber was cut and how millions of dollars worth cut, and thrown in the bayou's(sp) to rot or float away.
He raised a family of eight sons and up to a few years ago he was as active as any of them.
He was a good man. Peace be to his ashes.
Sam Leist was in Warren County, Mississippi and had been a resident of Vicksburg, Warren County since 1858, when he enlisted in the Confederate Army in Co. E 3rd CSA under Capt. Kelp? in June 1861 and he served throughout the War until the surrender of Joseph E Johnson Army in North Carolina at Bennett Place, sometimes known as Bennett Farm, in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, which was the site of the largest surrender to Union General William T Sherman of Confederate soldiers ending the American Civil War in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida on April 26, 1865.
He was sick in ?? Georgia.He served as a teamster from 7-1-1863 to 9-30-1863 at the rate of .25 per day. and again as a private in 5 Confederate roll of non-commissioned officers and privates employed on extra duty at Cartersville, GA during the month of Oct 1863, nature of service: Teamster, term of service 1 Oct 1863 to 5 Oct 1863, transferred to Maj. G W Triplett 6 Oct 1863 and from Cobham, GA Mar 7, 1864 fo 29 Feb 1864 for a period of 29 days at the rate of .25 per day.
3rd Mississippi Battalion Starts the Battle of Shiloh
To celebrate the dedication of the New Mississippi Monument in the park we will be featuring different Mississippi Units and their actions at the Battle of Shiloh, next is the 3rd Mississippi Battalion, the first Confederate unit to see action at the Battle of Shiloh.
The 3rd Mississippi Battalion was made up of a number of infantry companies formed in the summer of 1862 and organized from different parts of the state of Mississippi. By November 1861 there were seven companies which were assigned to Aaron B. Hardcastle, a former army officer.
Aaron Hardcastle was from the eastern shore of Maryland where his parents died when he was young and he was raised by relatives in St. Louis. In 1855, when he was 19, his brother, Edmund, who had attended West Point, obtained an appointment for Aaron as a 2nd lieutenant in Company F of the 6th U.S. Infantry. Hardcastle would serve on the plains and would be sent to reinforce the Utah Expedition led by Albert Sidney Johnston. Arriving after the conflict was resolved, the 6th U. S. Infantry marched on to California. Hardcastle served under Captain Lewis Armistead in the Mojave Expedition of 1858-59 and in 1861 was stationed at San Diego, California. Hardcastle resigned with Armistead and other southern officers and made his way across the desert with the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles with Gen. Johnston.
In September 1861, Hardcastle was appointed a captain of Confederate Infantry and assigned the task of mustering troops into service at Vicksburg, Mississippi. In November he was assigned command of the 3rd Mississippi Battalion of Infantry which he organized in December at Camp Anderson, near Jackson, Mississippi. Four of the companies were sent to New Orleans while the other three under Hardcastle were sent to Bowling Green, Kentucky. When Johnston's army retreated after the fall of Fort Donelson the unit was reunited at Corinth, Mississippi around March 20th.
Hardcastle's Battalion, of about 280 men were assigned to the brigade of Gen. S.A.M. Wood and placed in front of the brigade as pickets/ guards, on the night of April 5, 1862, just prior to the planned Confederate attack. At 4:55 A.M. the advance party of the unit, under Lt. Felix W. Hammoc were attacked by a Union patrol of five companies under the command of Major James Powell of the 25th Missouri Infantry. The advance fell back to the Battalion line and a fire fight began in the half light. At a range of 200 yards the two sides fired, inflicting the first casualties of the Battle of Shiloh. At first the Union fire was high but soon found its mark resulting in the loss of 4 killed and 20 wounded in the 3rd Mississippi Battalion. At about 6:30 A.M. the 3rd Mississippi Battalion fell back to the right flank of the brigade line and the Confederate advance began. As the line advanced Major Hardcastle advanced ahead of the battalion which advanced to his right, losing contact with the major. After Gen. Benjamin Prentiss' Division was pushed back by the Confederate attack, Hardcastle was reunited with his Battalion as they joined the attack on McClernand's Division near Review Field. In the intense fighting the unit lost a number of men including Capt. Joel Hughes of Company D. In the afternoon of April 6th the Battalion was assigned to support a battery of artillery near Duncan Field and at 5 PM was assigned to guard prisoners and escort them toward Corinth. On April 7th Major Hardcastle led the battalion back toward the battlefield where they took a position on the left engaging part of Gen. Lew Wallace's Division. While fighting there, Capt. Robert H. McNair of Company E, who stood exposed cheering his men on, was mortally wounded.
The 3rd Mississippi Battalion helped cover the retreat of the army back to Corinth where they were joined by two companies from Alabama and one from Mississippi to form the 33rd Mississippi Regiment. soon redesignated the 45th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. Hardcastle was elected colonel of the new regiment. After being posted near Farmington, Mississippi during the siege of Corinth the 45th Mississippi would join Bragg's invasion of Kentucky and fight at Perryville on October 8, 1862.
They would later see action at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga. Hardcastle would not be with the unit in these actions since he had been kicked by a horse and fractured his leg. While he recovered Hardcastle served as post commander at Dalton, Georgia, and Aberdeen, Mississippi before returning to the unit in November 1863. The 45th Mississippi would fight at Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, and during the Atlanta Campaign. In January 1863 Col. Hardcastle signed Gen. Patrick Cleburne's letter proposing recruitment of slaves for use in the Confederate army, an action frowned on by many in the Confederacy at that time. Cleburne, now their Divisional commander would praise their actions at Resaca and New Hope Church but due to the decrease in their numbers, the 45th Mississippi was declared an illegal regiment and turned back into a battalion.
This would leave Col. Hardcastle without a command and he would revert to the rank of Captain until he was assigned to a military court late in the war. Hardcastle would marry Alice Hatch who he had met in Aberdeen, and he would run a store there. Due to the disordered situation in Mississippi after the war he eventually moved back to Maryland where he died in 1915.
Samuel Leist first married Mary Jane Derrick in 1867. They had 2 children before Mary Jane's death: Louisa born Feb 16, 1869 died 3 Jul, 1871 and Samuel T. born May 22, 1870, died on Feb 10, 1943. Samuel T. never married and is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, Ms next to his half-brother Albert Frederick Leist and wife Ella Harris Leist.
Samuel then married Adeline Melissa Bellinger on 18 January, 1872 at Christ Episcopal Church in Vicksburg, MS.
For info on their children click on each childs name to go to their memorial at findagrave.com.
Death of Mr. Sam Leist Sr.
In the death of Mr. Samuel Leist Sr., at Mound View, this county, which is situated on the Yazoo River which event occurred on the 17th of November 1920. Issaquena County lost one of its oldest and best of citizens.
Mr. Leist was 89 years of age and had lived in this county for many, many years. He was here years before any of the country living along Steel's Bayou was opened up, and bought, owned and sold hundreds of acres of woodland- in those times he was in the timber business. He was an interesting talker, could tell you the ups and downs of events that occurred in this section of the country right after the civil war. How timbered land was bought and sold at $1.25 an acre and how only the very best of timber was cut and how millions of dollars worth cut, and thrown in the bayou's(sp) to rot or float away.
He raised a family of eight sons and up to a few years ago he was as active as any of them.
He was a good man. Peace be to his ashes.
link to Leist passport translation: https://www.patandmeloakes.com/LeistPassport.html
Sam's Civil War pension application, death certificate, as well a the original passport of his family when they came to America is attached on the findagrave.com memorial # 32160378. He was wounded being hit 4 times in the thumb and hand during the first battle of Shiloh in the Civil War.He lost partial use of his hand as a result of his injuries.
Death of Mr. Sam Leist Sr.
In the death of Mr. Samuel Leist Sr., at Mound View, this county, which is situated on the Yazoo River which event occurred on the 17th of November 1920. Issaquena County lost one of its oldest and best of citizens.
Mr. Leist was 89 years of age and had lived in this county for many, many years. He was here years before any of the country living along Steel's Bayou was opened up, and bought, owned and sold hundreds of acres of woodland- in those times he was in the timber business. He was an interesting talker, could tell you the ups and downs of events that occurred in this section of the country right after the civil war. How timbered land was bought and sold at $1.25 an acre and how only the very best of timber was cut and how millions of dollars worth cut, and thrown in the bayou's(sp) to rot or float away.
He raised a family of eight sons and up to a few years ago he was as active as any of them.
He was a good man. Peace be to his ashes.
Sam Leist was in Warren County, Mississippi and had been a resident of Vicksburg, Warren County since 1858, when he enlisted in the Confederate Army in Co. E 3rd CSA under Capt. Kelp? in June 1861 and he served throughout the War until the surrender of Joseph E Johnson Army in North Carolina at Bennett Place, sometimes known as Bennett Farm, in Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, which was the site of the largest surrender to Union General William T Sherman of Confederate soldiers ending the American Civil War in the Carolinas, Georgia and Florida on April 26, 1865.
He was sick in ?? Georgia.He served as a teamster from 7-1-1863 to 9-30-1863 at the rate of .25 per day. and again as a private in 5 Confederate roll of non-commissioned officers and privates employed on extra duty at Cartersville, GA during the month of Oct 1863, nature of service: Teamster, term of service 1 Oct 1863 to 5 Oct 1863, transferred to Maj. G W Triplett 6 Oct 1863 and from Cobham, GA Mar 7, 1864 fo 29 Feb 1864 for a period of 29 days at the rate of .25 per day.
3rd Mississippi Battalion Starts the Battle of Shiloh
To celebrate the dedication of the New Mississippi Monument in the park we will be featuring different Mississippi Units and their actions at the Battle of Shiloh, next is the 3rd Mississippi Battalion, the first Confederate unit to see action at the Battle of Shiloh.
The 3rd Mississippi Battalion was made up of a number of infantry companies formed in the summer of 1862 and organized from different parts of the state of Mississippi. By November 1861 there were seven companies which were assigned to Aaron B. Hardcastle, a former army officer.
Aaron Hardcastle was from the eastern shore of Maryland where his parents died when he was young and he was raised by relatives in St. Louis. In 1855, when he was 19, his brother, Edmund, who had attended West Point, obtained an appointment for Aaron as a 2nd lieutenant in Company F of the 6th U.S. Infantry. Hardcastle would serve on the plains and would be sent to reinforce the Utah Expedition led by Albert Sidney Johnston. Arriving after the conflict was resolved, the 6th U. S. Infantry marched on to California. Hardcastle served under Captain Lewis Armistead in the Mojave Expedition of 1858-59 and in 1861 was stationed at San Diego, California. Hardcastle resigned with Armistead and other southern officers and made his way across the desert with the Los Angeles Mounted Rifles with Gen. Johnston.
In September 1861, Hardcastle was appointed a captain of Confederate Infantry and assigned the task of mustering troops into service at Vicksburg, Mississippi. In November he was assigned command of the 3rd Mississippi Battalion of Infantry which he organized in December at Camp Anderson, near Jackson, Mississippi. Four of the companies were sent to New Orleans while the other three under Hardcastle were sent to Bowling Green, Kentucky. When Johnston's army retreated after the fall of Fort Donelson the unit was reunited at Corinth, Mississippi around March 20th.
Hardcastle's Battalion, of about 280 men were assigned to the brigade of Gen. S.A.M. Wood and placed in front of the brigade as pickets/ guards, on the night of April 5, 1862, just prior to the planned Confederate attack. At 4:55 A.M. the advance party of the unit, under Lt. Felix W. Hammoc were attacked by a Union patrol of five companies under the command of Major James Powell of the 25th Missouri Infantry. The advance fell back to the Battalion line and a fire fight began in the half light. At a range of 200 yards the two sides fired, inflicting the first casualties of the Battle of Shiloh. At first the Union fire was high but soon found its mark resulting in the loss of 4 killed and 20 wounded in the 3rd Mississippi Battalion. At about 6:30 A.M. the 3rd Mississippi Battalion fell back to the right flank of the brigade line and the Confederate advance began. As the line advanced Major Hardcastle advanced ahead of the battalion which advanced to his right, losing contact with the major. After Gen. Benjamin Prentiss' Division was pushed back by the Confederate attack, Hardcastle was reunited with his Battalion as they joined the attack on McClernand's Division near Review Field. In the intense fighting the unit lost a number of men including Capt. Joel Hughes of Company D. In the afternoon of April 6th the Battalion was assigned to support a battery of artillery near Duncan Field and at 5 PM was assigned to guard prisoners and escort them toward Corinth. On April 7th Major Hardcastle led the battalion back toward the battlefield where they took a position on the left engaging part of Gen. Lew Wallace's Division. While fighting there, Capt. Robert H. McNair of Company E, who stood exposed cheering his men on, was mortally wounded.
The 3rd Mississippi Battalion helped cover the retreat of the army back to Corinth where they were joined by two companies from Alabama and one from Mississippi to form the 33rd Mississippi Regiment. soon redesignated the 45th Mississippi Infantry Regiment. Hardcastle was elected colonel of the new regiment. After being posted near Farmington, Mississippi during the siege of Corinth the 45th Mississippi would join Bragg's invasion of Kentucky and fight at Perryville on October 8, 1862.
They would later see action at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga. Hardcastle would not be with the unit in these actions since he had been kicked by a horse and fractured his leg. While he recovered Hardcastle served as post commander at Dalton, Georgia, and Aberdeen, Mississippi before returning to the unit in November 1863. The 45th Mississippi would fight at Missionary Ridge, Ringgold, and during the Atlanta Campaign. In January 1863 Col. Hardcastle signed Gen. Patrick Cleburne's letter proposing recruitment of slaves for use in the Confederate army, an action frowned on by many in the Confederacy at that time. Cleburne, now their Divisional commander would praise their actions at Resaca and New Hope Church but due to the decrease in their numbers, the 45th Mississippi was declared an illegal regiment and turned back into a battalion.
This would leave Col. Hardcastle without a command and he would revert to the rank of Captain until he was assigned to a military court late in the war. Hardcastle would marry Alice Hatch who he had met in Aberdeen, and he would run a store there. Due to the disordered situation in Mississippi after the war he eventually moved back to Maryland where he died in 1915.
Samuel Leist first married Mary Jane Derrick in 1867. They had 2 children before Mary Jane's death: Louisa born Feb 16, 1869 died 3 Jul, 1871 and Samuel T. born May 22, 1870, died on Feb 10, 1943. Samuel T. never married and is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery in Vicksburg, Ms next to his half-brother Albert Frederick Leist and wife Ella Harris Leist.
Samuel then married Adeline Melissa Bellinger on 18 January, 1872 at Christ Episcopal Church in Vicksburg, MS.
For info on their children click on each childs name to go to their memorial at findagrave.com.
Death of Mr. Sam Leist Sr.
In the death of Mr. Samuel Leist Sr., at Mound View, this county, which is situated on the Yazoo River which event occurred on the 17th of November 1920. Issaquena County lost one of its oldest and best of citizens.
Mr. Leist was 89 years of age and had lived in this county for many, many years. He was here years before any of the country living along Steel's Bayou was opened up, and bought, owned and sold hundreds of acres of woodland- in those times he was in the timber business. He was an interesting talker, could tell you the ups and downs of events that occurred in this section of the country right after the civil war. How timbered land was bought and sold at $1.25 an acre and how only the very best of timber was cut and how millions of dollars worth cut, and thrown in the bayou's(sp) to rot or float away.
He raised a family of eight sons and up to a few years ago he was as active as any of them.
He was a good man. Peace be to his ashes.
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Louisa Leist
1869–1871
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Samuel T Leist
1870–1943
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Charles Joseph Leist
1872–1950
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George William Leist
1876–1943
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Albert Frederick Leist
1877–1957
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Lillie Belle Leist
1879–1882
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Sarah Elizabeth Leist
1881–1882
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James Wallace Leist Sr
1883–1939
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Addie Mae Leist Sanderford
1886–1910
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Robert E. Leist
1887–1954
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Sidney Clayton Leist
1889–1967
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