History Is Lunch: Clay Williams, The Glorious 8th of January! A Date Forgotten in History
On January 8, 2020, Clay Williams presented “The Glorious 8th of January! A Date Overlooked in History” as part of the History Is Lunch series.
On January 8, 1815, the British and United States armies faced off in the Battle of New Orleans, the last major engagement of the War of 1812. The U.S. troops under General Andrew Jackson decisively defeated the superior British forces.
“Because a peace treaty had been sent from England before the Battle of New Orleans, that conflict’s significance has been misunderstood and minimized,” said Williams. “But news of the Treaty of Ghent had not reached America by January 8, and the overwhelming victory destroyed the plans of the British to seize the lands of the Louisiana Purchase.”
The Battle of New Orleans helped solidify the United States’ independence. The force gathered to defend the city typified the diverse country the nation had become. Andrew Jackson’s triumphs in the Creek War along with his leadership in the Battle of New Orleans propelled him to the presidency.
“In later years January 8 lost its prominence,” said Williams. “But the U.S. victory on that day was truly one of the most significant military events in the nation’s history.”
Clay Williams is co-author of Battle for the Southern Frontier, the Creek War and the War of 1812 with Mike Bunn. He holds a BA and MA from Mississippi State University. Since 1999, Williams has been employed with the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, where he currently oversees operations for the Eudora Welty House and Garden, Manship House Museum, Old Capitol Museum, Winterville Mounds, Historic Jefferson College, and Grand Village of the Natchez Indians. Williams has published articles in the Journal of Mississippi History and Mississippi History Now, and he and Bunn are writing a volume in the Heritage of Mississippi Series on Frontier Mississippi (1800-1840).
History Is Lunch is a weekly lecture series of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History that explores different aspects of the state's past. The hour-long programs are held in the Craig H. Neilsen Auditorium of the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum building in Jackson. MDAH livestreams videos of the program at noon on Wednesdays on their Facebook page,
Cadet Parade at Jefferson Military Academy, Southern Confederacy, 1864
Clip from “The Horse Soldiers” (1959; 115 min). The film is based on Harold Sinclair's novel of the same name.
The storyline is based on the true history of Grierson's Raid and the climactic Battle of Newton's Station, led by Colonel Benjamin Grierson who, along with 1700 men, set out from northern Mississippi and rode several hundred miles behind enemy lines in April 1863 to cut the railroad between Newton's Station and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Grierson's raid was part of the Union campaign, culminating in the Battle of Vicksburg. The raid was as successful as it was daring, and remarkably bloodless. By attacking the Confederate-controlled railroad it upset the plans and troop deployments of Confederate General John C. Pemberton.
“The Horse Soldiers” was filmed on location in Natchitoches Parish Louisiana along the banks of Cane River Lake and in and around Natchez, Mississippi. John Ford cut the film's climactic battle scene short when Fred Kennedy, a veteran stuntman and bit player, was killed in a horse fall. Ford was so upset he closed the set and had to film the rest of the scene later in the San Fernando Valley. The scene with the fatal fall remains in the film. Originally, the film was to follow Marlowe's forces to their destination and the rewards of a successful campaign. Because of the loss of Fred Kennedy, Ford ended it as quickly as possible and it was simply understood that they escaped the Confederates and went on to their destination
How to Crash a Party | Party Crashing in Natchez | Great Mississippi River Balloon Race 2018
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My son, Micah, and I went to Natchez in October to see the Great Mississippi River Balloon Race 2018. Of course, you know me, MS Congeniality, I didn't want to just see hot air balloons. I wanted to ride IN one.
Although we found a pilot who agreed to take us up, the weather never cooperated.
While waiting for a flight, we took up a stranger's invitation to brunch not knowing what to expect.
What we found was the highlight of our non-flight balloon weekend. It was party filled with great people -- Natchez Royalty I was told. it was the place to see and be seen. And had we not faced our fears and stayed in the hotel, our entire balloon weekend would have been a total let down.
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May 7 The Great Natchez Tornado of 1840
Janet Sullivan presents a Natchez History Minute about the tornado that completely devastated the city on this day, May 7 in 1840. Over 317 people died in the storm which today, ranks as the second deadliest tornado in United States history.
Episode 2414.4 | Ames Plantation | Tennessee Crossroads
Tennessee Crossroads' Al Voecks explores the history of this West Tennessee plantation at the Annual Heritage Festival held on a day in October. Join Nashville Public Television's Tennessee Crossroads to find out more about Ames Plantation.
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Jun 3 Jefferson Davis
Mckenzie Landers, a sophomore at Adams County Christian School, presents a Natchez History Minute about Jefferson Davis, who was born on this day, June 3 in 1808. Davis served as Secretary of War and in both the U. S. House and Senate before being elected president of the Confederacy. He married his second wife, Varina Howell, at her parents' home, The Briars in Natchez.
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Feb 29 William C. C. Claiborne
Abby Brown, a senior at Cathedral High School, presents a Natchez History Minute about Mississippi Territorial Governor William Charles Cole Claiborne, who would become the first elected governor of Louisiana.
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Jan 3 Ibrahima
Darryl Grennell, President of the Adams Count Board of Supervisors and Asst. Professor of Biological Sciences at Alcorn State University, presents a Natchez History Minute about Ibrahima, the Prince Among Slaves, for January 3, 2016.
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Hiram Rhodes Revels - First African American US Senator
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Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first African American United States Senator, filling the seat left vacant by Jefferson Davis in 1861 when Mississippi seceded from the Union.
Born in the 1820s in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Hiram Revels was the son of free parents of mixed African American and Native American ancestry. Revels moved with his family to Lincolnton, North Carolina in 1838, where he became a barber. Years later he left the South and enrolled at Beech Grove Seminary, a Quaker institution near Liberty, Indiana. In 1845 he entered Darke County (Ohio) Seminary for Negroes. The same year Revels was ordained a minister in a Baltimore African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church. In the early 1850s he married Phoebe A. Bass of Zanesville, Ohio, and together they had six children.
Hiram Revels traveled across Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Maryland, Kentucky and Tennessee, preaching to both free and enslaved African Americans. He moved his ministry to an AME church in St. Louis in 1853, but moved again after only a year, due to a dispute with the local bishop. Revels ultimately left the AME denomination and enrolled at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois for two years (1857-1858). He then returned to Baltimore where he was appointed the first African American pastor of the Madison Street Presbyterian Church, a position he held until 1863. Between 1863 and 1865 Revels served as a chaplain in the Union Army and helped recruit and organize black Union Army work battalions in Maryland and Missouri. He also founded a black high school in St. Louis and several churches.
After the Civil War, he continued traveling, preaching in Leavenworth, Kansas; Louisville, Kentucky; and New Orleans, Louisiana. On June 1868, Revels became the presiding elder at a church in Natchez, Mississippi, and shortly thereafter he was appointed to the city board of aldermen.
As a prominent, highly educated African American, Revels was encouraged by many to seek higher office. He ran for the Adams county seat in the state senate in late 1869 as a Republican and easily won as a result of the large majority of African Americans who had recently gained the right to vote during Reconstruction.
Supported by Mississippi’s black legislators, Revels was elected in January 1870 by the Republican-dominated Mississippi state legislature to fill the unexpired US Senate seat of Jefferson Davis. After acrimonious debate on February 25, 1870, over whether to accept his credentials, the United States Senate voted 48 to 8 to seat Revels. One month later he took his seat among the senators. Although Revels served only until the end of the term on March 3, 1871, he nonetheless became the nation’s first African American senator.
Hiram Revels introduced three bills while serving as senator of Mississippi, one of which passed. The successful bill was a petition for the removal of political and civil disabilities from an ex-Confederate official. As a proponent of amnesty for ex-Confederates, Revels received some criticism from the black community.
After completing his term Revels returned to Mississippi. He was a co-founder of Alcorn University 1872. Revels served as its first president of the University until 1873 when he was appointed Mississippi’s Secretary of State. Revels returned to the Alcorn presidency shortly after, but came into conflict with Republican Governor Adelbert Ames who asked him to resign. Student and faculty supported Revels as president however, and he was reappointed in 1876. Revels resigned again in 1882 as a result of poor health and the institution’s financial troubles. Revels moved to Holly Springs, Mississippi where he continued to teach and minister. He died of a stroke on January 16, 1901 while attending the Upper Mississippi Conference of the A.M.E. Church then meeting in Aberdeen, Mississippi.
GBYP 2011 Fiddle Contest - Laura Dobson - Waltz
Laura Dobson's tune for the Waltz Category of the 2011 Great Big Yam Potatoes Fiddle Contest at Historic Jefferson College near Natchez, MS. Tim Avalon accompanies on guitar.
Feb 1 Territorial Capital Moves to Washington
State Representative Robert L. Johnson, III, presents a Natchez History Minute about the removal of the territorial capital from Natchez to nearby Washington on this day, February 1, 1802.
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Jul 10 The Oldest Congregation in Three States
Ginga McLaughlin presents a Natchez History Minute about Washington Methodist Church, the oldest Methodist congregation in three states. Organized in 1799 with eight members, the congregation erected the present church in 1828, making it the second oldest Methodist church building in the Mississippi.
200 Years of Mississippi | Mississippi Roads | MPB
Mississippi celebrates its bicentennial in 2017 and Mississippi Roads takes a look at Mississippi’s history. From a vast area populated by Native Americans and shaped by the European Colonial Era to statehood, we take a look at what and who we are today and a hint of who we are becoming. We also feature a story on the first capital building Texada, located in Natchez and the Key Brother’s historical flight over Meridian which resonates even to this day.
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Aug 6 A Territorial Governor arrives in Natchez
Brock Farmer, a senior at Cathedral High School, presents a Natchez History Minute about the arrival in Natchez of Winthrop Sargent who on this day, August 6 in 1798, to assume his duties as the first governor of the Mississippi Territory.
Natchez High School Marching Band - Yoga @ Iris 2016
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