Genealogy Projects tagged with Tishomingo County on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Tishomingo County, Mississippi

    Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tishomingo County, Mississippi. Official Website Tishomingo County was organized February 9, 1836, from Chickasaw lands that were ceded to the United States. The Chickasaw were forced by Indian Removal to relocate to lands in the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Jacinto was the original county seat of Tishomingo County and its hist...

  • Battle of Iuka, (September 19, 1862), US Civil War

    The Battle of Iuka was fought on September 19, 1862, in Iuka, Mississippi , during the American Civil War . In the opening battle of the Iuka-Corinth Campaign, Union Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans stopped the advance of the Confederate Army of the West commanded by Maj. Gen. Sterling Price . Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant brought two armies to confront Price in a double envelopment: Rosecrans's Army...