Capt. DeWitt C. Durham 1839-1921 Cleveland Co., NC.>Miss. CSA
Article from the 'Confederate Veteran' mag., dated April, 1921, page {P} 149.
CAPTAIN DEWITT C. DURHAM,a gallant Confederate soldier, was born in Cleveland County, N.C. in 1839 and died at the home of his son in Hattiesburg, Miss., on Feb. 25, 1921. He served in five military departments of the South. He was reared in Kemper Co., Miss, to which State his parents, BENJAMIN F. and ELIZABETH EVANS DURHAM, moved in 1843.
Capt. Durham was a scholarly man, having graduated from Irving College, Tenn., in 1858, afterwards attending Judge Pearson's Law school in N.C., returning to Mississippi at the outbreak of war to volunteer for the Confederacy. He enlisted in the Kemper Guards and was elected second lieutenant. This company was attached to the 59th Va. Regiment, known as Wise's Legion...
he was promoted to first lieutenant. The regiment moved to Roanoke Island, where the entire command was captured. The officers were paroled and afterwards exchanged.
In the spring of 1865 he was captured for a third time while on duty in the trenches at Blakely near Mobile. Subsequently he was a prisoner of war at Ship Island and was paroled at Medidian at the close of the war.
In 1868 he moved to Meridian, where he was for many years prominently identified with the city's affairs. He married MISS HARRIET C. CHATFIELD, d/o REV. G.W. CHATFIELD. He is survived by 2 sons, W.L. DURHAM and D.C. DURHAM and 2 daughters, MRS. C.H. STEELE and MISS ELOISE DURHAM. He was a member of Walthall Camp, No. 25, U.C.V.
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