H. L. B. Hovis
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Hugh Lawson Berry Hovis (1826 - 1864)

Lt. Col. Hugh Lawson Berry (H. L. B.) Hovis
Born in Lincoln, North Carolina, United Statesmap
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Husband of — married 1851 in North Carolinamap
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Died at age 37 in Rocky Ford, Pontotoc, Mississippi, United Statesmap
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Biography

Roll of Honor
Lt. Col. H. L. B. Hovis Died of Wounds during the United States Civil War.
Hugh Lawson Berry Hovis was born at Lincolnton, North Carolina 4 Nov 1826. His parents, Elias Hovis and Eliza Ann Weatherspoon, moved to Ripley, Mississippi in 1845. Lawson was the second of 10 children. He married Laura Phifer on 31 Jul 1851. After serving with the Third U.S. Artillery in the War with Mexico and visiting the California gold fields, Hovis returned to North Carolina. He and his wife, moved to Ripley about 1852 as newlyweds. Hovis had a carriage shop, winning prizes for his workmanship. He was the father of 5 children: Addie Irene (Mrs. Hugh Porter Tigert), Madella B. (died in infancy), Carrie L., Charles L. (Katherine Tigert), and Katherine Lavinia (Mrs. John Chesterfield Wallace).
His military career began at age 21, on 6 Dec 1846 with enlistment at Salisbury, North Carolina in U. S. Army 3rd Artillary K/M for 5 year term. He listed his occupation as carriage maker.
Lawson B. Hovis was a First Lieutenant in the O'Conner Rifles when they went to Lynchburg, Virginia in spring 1861, and mustered into the Provisional Army of the Confederate States. The regiment served in Shenandoah Valley, the first battle of Manassas, and into winter quarters at Dumfries. Reportedly, Hovis was with General Bee, during the Battle at 1st Manassas, when the general mentioned Jackson standing like a stonewall. Lawson wrote a letter to his wife describing that famous battle which was placed in the cornerstone of the Confederate monument in Ripley in 1911.
On December 4,1863, in the thick of the battle at Moscow, Tennessee, Lt. Col. Hovis suffered a severe wound in the left leg near the knee joint.  Trying to get home, he was taken as far as Rocky Ford, west of Oxford. His wife told of riding there on horseback to visit him. Too ill to get back to Ripley, he died at Rocky Ford on March 26, 1864 of gangrene poisoning.[1]
Lt. Col. H. L. B. Hovis served in the United States Civil War.
Enlisted: 1 Aug 1862
Mustered out: 4 Dec 1863
Side: CSA
Regiment(s): 1st Mississippi Partisan Rangers
Roll of Honor
Lt. Col. H. L. B. Hovis was a POW during the United States Civil War.
Roll of Honor
Lt. Col. H. L. B. Hovis was WIA during the United States Civil War.

Service Records

1 Aug 1862-Enlisted age 36 Ripley MS, 1st Mississippi Partisan Rangers
5 Sept 1862-Elected Lt. Colonel
29 Dec 1863-Captured at Ripley MS POW
14 Feb 1863 - Received at St Louis sent to Camp Chase
15 Feb 1863 - Sent to Ft Delaware
25 Apr 1863 - Ft Delaware Descript age 36, ht. 5'11 hair sandy comp fair
29 Apr 1863 - Paroled from Fort Delaware
3 Dec 1863 - Severely wounded at Battle of Moscow[2]

Ripley, Tippah County MS 1860

Household# 1322
L B Hovis M 34 North Carolina
Laura S Hovis F 30 North Carolina
Irene Hovis F 8 Mississippi
Carrie Hovis F 5 Mississippi
Charles Hovis M 2 Mississippi
Joseph E Hovis M 16 North Carolina[3]

Burial

Rest soldier rest, thy warfare o're; safely anchored in the harbor of Eternal Rest." 

Ripley Cemetery 
Ripley
Tippah County
Mississippi[4]

Sources

  1. ↑ The Mississippi Partisan Rangers, C.S.A. by Andrew Brown
  2. ↑ Fold3 ~ Confederate Service Records
  3. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6GX-D8J : 30 December 2015
  4. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #9797036
  • Tippah County, Mississippi




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