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Can some one give me some helpwith Major Mason's Confederate Service Record.
I would assume he was inthe Missisippi State Troops but I cannot find him
Sam P

Document # Xxx. Vicksburg Evening Post, Vicksburg, Missisippi Friday, September 03rd, 1937
Reminiscences - The Obituary of Major James S Mason
The Warren County - Public Library, Vicksburg Warren County, Missisippi

In the Vicksburg Evening Post of September 03rd, 1887 - Thirty Years Ago, H S Fulkerson contributed the following article about the death of James S Mason, Editor of the Southern Reveille; A Shining Mark has been struck by an Arrow from the Insatiate Archer; An active, restless and lately Suffering Body, has gone back to the Bosom of our Common Mother to await in silence the Resurrection Morn; And a right spirit has winged its way back to the God who gave it.

“So vanishes our State, so pass our days;

“So Life but opens now, and now decays;

“The Cradle and the Tomb, alas! So nigh;

“To give is scarce distinguished from to die.”

Major Mason was born in Delaware in April, 1818, and was here fore in his Seventieth year at his death, he was raised in mercantile life in Philadelphia, where so many of the youth of our country received their commercial Education, and when arrived at about his majority emigrated to Missisippi and settle at Port Gibson, where all of his subsequent life had been spent, and where he engaged actively an largely in he pursuit to which he had been regarded and continued it up to about the prior of the Civil War.

He was an Excellent and Enterprising Business Man of Sound Judgment, Liberal in his Dealings, Generous and Charitable in his Nature and Public Spirited: claiming for himself and enviable Reputation and Popularity, although a merchant by perfusion he was the associated and intimate companion of professional men who sought his Society for his bright and genial qualities and intelligence he community begins noted in early and later days for its number of prominent and professional men.

Major Mason was a Democrat of the Jefferson School from his youth up and was very found of politics through he never sought political preferment, which he could have had at the hands of his Party.

It may be said that he had a passion for politics, and was a leader in the political affairs of his County almost from the First year of his life init, He fought Whiggery and Know nothing - ism in their day with enthusiasm of a Knight - Errant, and yet with so good much nature generally, as to make a bout with him enjoyable, he was the life of the town in his young days, and delightful recollections of him are cherished by his associates and contemporaries.

But once in his life did he swing from the Center of his Party in politics; He as a Union Democrat in1851, and supported Foote for Governor, and was influential in carrying his County for him. Afterwards he fell into line with the stalwarts of his party and "became an active secessionists, and so continued up to the Civil War, in which he engaged personally for only a short time, when he commanded a Company of Militia, stationed at Milldale, in Warren County, for a time, as part of the Defenses of Vicksburg."

Before the Civil War, when engaged in business, he had successfully, for some years, conducted the Port Gibson Reveille Newspaper as its editor, after the Civil War, he revived it and became its Editor and proprietor and remained as such up to the time of his death, engaging in no other pursuit but devoting his time and talents wholly to the paper, which has been a success,finacncially, andand whose influence upon public opinion at home and in the State has been marked.

It remains only to speak of his qualities as a writer, he was Forcible, Felicitous and Pointed in his Arguments, and Skilled in Parry and Thrust. His Satire was Keen and Ridicule (Which he indulged in sometimes to excess and to his hurt.) was a weapon which he wielded with the strength of an Athlete, In Polemics, He was not liberally educated; Indeed his education was limited, but he had all his life been a close reader of Standard Authors; Was well versed in the Political History of the Country, familiar with the works which gave correct views of the nature of our institutions; In fact, he drew his knowledge from the highest sources accessible to us, Dickens, in light Literature, was a great favorite with him the broad and genial humor of the author finding a hearty repose in the reader and being the inspiration of much of his own pleasantry. We must part with our best and most cherished friends; Happy is it when the edge of sorrow is blunted y memories that are pleasing, so pleasing that the retrospect blends with the prospect and makes us long for reunion of Happier shores, where the sorrow of parting never shall come to disturb our tranquil rest.

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