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Welcome to The American History and Genealogy Project (AHGP), for the state of Mississippi Civil War project, an unincorporated not-for-profit network of independent sites devoted to History & Genealogy, and covering North American Countries and Territories. For more information about our group, including how you can join us, please see our about page.

Submitting information to this project is easy! Send an email to ahgpmscivilwar@gmail.com with your information as a text document or PDF file.

If you would like to adopt a county please request so by email to the webmaster.

Counties available:

County	Date Created	Parent County	County Seat
Adams	1799	Natchez District	Natchez
Alcorn	1870	Tippah / Tishomingo	Corinth
Amite	1809	Wilkinson	Liberty
Attala	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Kosciusko
Benton	1870	Marshall / Tippah	Ashland
Bolivar	1836	Choctaw Cession Of 1830	Cleveland
Calhoun	1852	Chickasaw / Lafayette / Yalobusha	Pittsboro
Carroll	1833	Choctaw Cession	Carrollton
Chickasaw	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1830	Houston
Choctaw	1833	Choctaw Cession	Ackerman
Claiborne	1802	Jefferson	Port Gibson
Clarke	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Quitman
Clay	1871	Chickasaw / Lowndes /Monroe / Oktibbeha	West Point
Coahoma	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1836	Clarksdale
Copiah	1823	Hinds	Hazlehurst
Covington	1819	Lawrence / Wayne	Collins
DeSoto	1836	Indian Lands	Hernando
Forrest	1906	Perry	Hattiesburg
Franklin adopted	1809	Adams	Meadville
George	1910	Greene / Jackson	Lucedale
Greene	1811	Amite / Franklin / Wayne	Leakesville
Grenada	1870	Carroll/Yalobusha /Montgomery/Tallahatchie/Webster/Choctaw	Grenada
Hancock	1812	Mobile District	Bay Saint Louis
Harrison	1841	Hancock / Jackson	Gulfport
Hinds	1821	Choctaw Cession of 1820	Jackson
Holmes	1833	Yazoo	Lexington
Humphreys	1918	Holmes / Washington /Yazoo / Sunflower	Belzoni
Issaquena	1844	Washington	Mayersville
Itawamba	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1832	Fulton
Jackson	1812	Mobile District	Pascagoula
Jasper	1833	Indian Lands	Bay Springs
Jefferson	1799	Natchez	Fayette
Jefferson Davis	1906	Covington / Lawrence	Prentiss
Jones	1826	Covington / Wayne	Laurel / Ellisville
Kemper	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	De Kalb
Lafayette	1836	Chickasaw Cession	Oxford
Lamar	1904	Marion / Pearl River	Purvis
Lauderdale	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1833	Meridian
Lawrence	1814	Marion	Monticello
Leake	1833	Choctaw Cession	Carthage
Lee	1866	Itawamba / Pontotoc	Tupelo
Leflore	1871	Carroll / Sunflower / Tallahatchie	Greenwood
Lincoln	1870	Franklin / Lawrence /Copiah / Pike / Amite	Brookhaven
Lowndes	1830	Monroe	Columbus
Madison	1828	Yazoo	Canton
Marion	1811	Amite / Wayne / Franklin	Columbia
Marshall	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1832	Holly Springs
Monroe	1821	Chickasaw Cession of 1821	Aberdeen
Montgomery	1871	Carroll / Choctaw	Winona
Neshoba	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Philadelphia
Newton	1836	Neshoba	Decatur
Noxubee	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Macon
Oktibbeha	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Starkville
Panola	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1830	Batesville
Pearl River	1890	Hancock / Marion	Poplarville
Perry	1820	Greene	New Augusta
Pike	1815	Marion	Magnolia
Pontotoc	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1832	Pontotoc
Prentiss	1870	Tishomingo	Booneville
Quitman	1877	Panola / Coahoma	Marks
Rankin	1828	Hinds	Brandon
Scott	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1832	Forest
Sharkey	1876	Warren / Washington / Issaquena	Rolling Fork
Simpson	1824	Choctaw Cession of 1820	Mendenhall
Smith	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Raleigh
Stone	1916	Harrison	Wiggins
Sunflower	1844	Bolivar	Indianola
Tallahatchie	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Charleston
Tate	1873	Marshall / Tunica / DeSoto	Senatobia
Tippah	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1832	Ripley
Tishomingo	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1832	Iuka
Tunica	1836	Chickasaw Cession of 1832	Tunica
Union	1870	Pontotoc /Tippah	New Albany
Walthall	1910	Marion / Pike	Tylertown
Warren	1809	Natchez District	Vicksburg
Washington	1827	Warren / Yazoo	Greenville
Wayne	1809	Mississippi Territory's "Old"Washington County	Waynesboro
Webster	1874	Montgomery / Chickasaw /Choctaw / Oktibbeha	Walthall
Wilkinson	1802	Adams	Woodville
Winston	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Louisville
Yalobusha	1833	Choctaw Cession of 1830	Water Valley
Yazoo	1823	Hinds	Yazoo City