THE CIVIL WAR 
After the election of Abraham Lincoln to the Presidency of the United States, Mississipppi was the second state to declar secession, right after South Carolina. C. C. Dease was elected a delegate to the State Convention on Secession from Jasper County. Thus Jasper County would play a pivitol role in the decision to seceed from the Union and to go to war if necessary. It would send many of it's finest sons into battle, of which many would pay the supreme sacrific of their lives and others would be maimed in body and/or spirit for the rest of their lives.
In this section we will develop some of the stories and about the people from Jasper County who answered the call to arms for the South. We begin with links to the documents of causes and secession and the story of the Jasper Grays.
Mississippi's Declaration of the Causes of the Civil War
Mississippi's Resolutions on the Civil War
Chapter 1 of The Veterans Story
Chapter 2 of The Veterans Story
Chapter 3 of The Veterans Story
Chapter 4 of The Veterans Story
Chapter 5 of The Veterans Story
J. B. Lightsey's Civil War Writings
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