An interesting Demographic

Holly Springs Civil War Articles from The Daily Dispatch, Richmond VA

A Mississippi Rifle Company.

--The Jeff Davis Rifles, of Holly Springs, Miss., have gone to Pensacola. The company is composed as follows: Planters, 14; lawyers, 4; editors, 5; merchants, 9; printers, 6; a deputy sheriff, and the rest of carpenters, coachmakers, apothecaries, physicians, students, laborers, saddlers, jewellers, bricklayers, &c.

The Daily Dispatch: April 6, 1861

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