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Miller Civil War Tours Civil War tours of Oxford, University of Mississippi, Holly Springs and Shiloh Battlefield The information for these books is sitting in my files.

I am offering all day Civil War tours of Oxford/University, Holly Springs and Shiloh Battlefield. These tours are based on my 32 years of research into all things related to the University of Mississippi, Her students and alumni, and Oxford in the Civil War. I moved to Oxford 7 years ago in order to write fully factual, fully footnoted books on The University Greys, Oxford and University during th

e War, The UM Class of 1861, Jeremiah Gage - one University Grey in detail, Ole Miss students and alumni at the battle of Shiloh, Ole Miss and Her Southern symbols, and Holly Springs in the yellow fever epidemic of 1878. I will also offer Sunday afternoon cemetery tours of St. Peters in Oxford, College Church Cemetery at College Hill and Hillcrest Cemetery in Holly Springs.

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I am offering all day announced and private Civil War tours of Oxford/University, Holly Springs and the Shiloh Battlefield. These tours are based on my 28 years of research on Ole Miss, Oxford, and all things related to them in the Civil War.

Oxford /University tours consist of the history of the 11 University pre War buildings, pre War student life, student pranks, the coming of the War at the University, the history of the Confederate Soldier statue at the bottom of The Circle, the University Greys, Nathan Bedford Forrest on campus, the history of the University Greys Tiffany stained glass window in Ventress Hall, student chicken stealing, a detailed history of the Old Chapel, student debate societies, Fraternities, graduations, the Old Observatory, the Dead House, The University’s use as a hospital after Shiloh, the campus Confederate Cemetery, Memory House and Walton-Young House and their ties to the Civil War . Lunch is up to you with many choices.

We then go into Oxford and visit/cover the Elma Meek House (she suggested the name Ole Miss), The Union Female College, Trustee/Treasurer James M. Howry’s house (he saved the University gold, a yankee was shot on his front porch) , The Square (raided 4 times and burned in 1864) Chancellor’s corner in St. Peters Cemetery (plus one Supreme Court Justice), Miss Mary Wendel’s House (she was engaged to a University Grey (sad story), and we finish at 1846 College Hill Church and Cemetery.

At Shiloh we cover the 85 University of Mississippi students and alumni in 20 different Regiments in that battle. They range from privates to Colonels with General’s aids and Doctors thrown in. We end up covering the whole Battlefield from the Confederate point of view. I tell about UM students and alumni at 18 of 22 stops. I will show and tell you all the Ole Miss connections to that battle that NO one else knows. If you are a UM Alumni or student, you will have a dog, or a bunch of them, in that fight. Lunch is usually at Hagy’s Catfish Hotel, worth the trip by itself! The University Greys are NOT at Shiloh, they were sent to the Easy at the beginning of the War.