Capt. Peter Guerrant Moseley, I, 1812 War Vet.

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Biography

Peter Guerrant Moseley was born on October 9, 1776, in Goochland, Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States. His parents were Lieutenant Robert Peter Moseley, II and Mary Magdalene Moseley.

Peter married Judith Moseley in 1798 in Virginia, United States. Together they had the following children:

• Mary Magdalene Moseley;
• William Moseley;
• Socrates Moseley;
• Adeline Sanders Moseley;
• Peter Guerrant Moseley, II;
• Lycurgus Hamilton Moseley.

Peter married Sarah Sally Brown / Mosely on December 27, 1818, in Sumner County, Tennessee, United States. Together they had the following children: Ann C Holt (Moseley).

He died on January 18, 1861, and was buried in Yazoo City, Yazoo County, Mississippi, United States.

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Captain Peter Guerrant Moseley, at The Hermitage with The President of The United States - Captain Moseley on behalf of his friends and neighbors addressed and delivered a speech- reported to be delivered with all the warmth and sincerity of old friendship. The Moseley family had been an allied family with President Andrew Jackson for many years. [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=34677807&fcfToken=eyJ...]

Peter Guerrant Moseley, Sr, was said to be in his Yazoo City home when he died in 1861. The Moseley Plantation, located in Benton County, just outside of Yazoo, was destroyed on January 18, 1858. Northern troops came through to be sure no crops, or livestock survived, so the Confederacy would not continue to fund the war. Yazoo, MS, was along the waterway and an entry place and a supporter of the Confederacy. Sadly, Peter Guerrant Moseley's 2nd wife Sarah Sally Brown (Trigg) (1777-1858) was killed by Union soldiers on the same day.

Ravages of War War always has the innocent ones that get caught in the middle of the fighting. The children and women. We can sit back and point out the errors ancestors made; - can't write out History-

The Moseley family witnessed innocent people of all ages, and races, shot and killed, the ones that barely escaped death with just a few heirlooms that were hidden away in a root cellar. The Family Bible, a Silver Bowl, a few miniature paintings, family papers, and letters, but all of the large portraits burned with the home. They left traveling to Hearne, Robertson, County, Texas, for a safe new life.

In February 1864, Union Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman led approximately 26,000 men across the state of Mississippi toward Meridian. On the 14th, Sherman’s men wrecked the rail center there and destroyed miles of tracks in all directions. With the work of destruction complete, Sherman pronounced that “Meridian…is no more.” In addition to the main thrust toward Meridian, Sherman ordered two other expeditions, one a cavalry raid under the command of William Sooy Smith (a raid which ended in disaster at Okolona) and another expedition up the Yazoo River, involving both Union naval and army personnel. The Yazoo expedition ended in a small but sharp engagement at Yazoo City on March 5, 1864. The battle included several black troops, including former slaves from Mississippi who had enlisted in the Union army. Because of their presence, the battle of Yazoo City was particularly ferocious and would serve as a template for much of the fighting to come in 1864 and 1865.

The Yazoo River had long been viewed as a likely avenue of approach for the Union navy, but the river had been blocked by Confederate batteries at Snyder’s Bluff north of Vicksburg and by Fort Pemberton in the north, an earthen and cotton bale fortification just west of Greenwood. With the fall of Vicksburg, however, the river was open to Union navigation, at least part of the way. The purpose of the 1864 expedition was two-fold: first, Sherman wanted to capture or destroy the enemy’s cotton and corn to “Impress on the people along Yazoo and Sunflower that we intend to hold them responsible for all acts of hostility to the river commerce.” Second, he hoped to draw Confederate cavalry in the region to the defense of the Yazoo and away from his main column. On January 31, the fleet, including the tinclads Exchange, Petrel, Marmora

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