{⋆★⋆} BG Lowery, Mark Perrin

Mark Perrin Lowrey
"Preacher General" & "The Gallant Preacher Soldier"
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Born: December 30, 1828

Birthplace: Finger, McNairy County, Tennessee

Father: Adam Lowrey 1785 – 1837

Mother: Margaret Doss 1790 – 1870

Wife: Sarah Raleigh Holmes 1827 – 1898
(Buried: Blue Mountain Cemetery, Blue Mountain, Mississippi)

Children:

Frances Modena Lowrey Berry 1850 – 1942​

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Margaret "Maggie" Lowrey Anderson 1852 – 1953​

(Buried: Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama)​

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Janie Latitha Lowrey 1854 – 1944​

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William Tyndale Lowrey 1858 – 1944​

(Buried: Clinton Cemetery, Clinton, Mississippi)​

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Mark D. Booth Lowrey 1860 – 1930​

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Perrin Holmes Lowrey 1861 – 1941​

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Tom Calvin Lowrey 1862 – 1917​

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Dr. William Green "Bill" Lowrey 1862 – 1947​

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Ida Cora Lowery​

Occupation before War:

Bricklayer in Mississippi​

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Served as a Private during the Mexican War​

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Southern Baptist Preacher in Kossuth, Mississippi​

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Served in the Mississippi State Militia rising to Captain​

Civil War Career:

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1861 – 1862: Colonel of 4th​ Mississippi Militia Regiment​

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1862 – 1863: Colonel of 32nd​ Mississippi Infantry Regiment​

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1862: Participated in the Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee​

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1862: Wounded in left arm during the Battle of Perryville, Kentucky​

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1863: Participated in the Battle of Murfreesboro, Tennessee​

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1863: Participated in the Battle of Chickamauga, Georgia​

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1863 – 1865: Brigadier General of Confederate Army Infantry​

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1864: Brigade Commander Franklin – Nashville Campaign, Tennessee​

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1865: Resigned as Brigadier General, March 14, 1865 due to bad health​

Occupation after War:

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Founder of the Blue Mountain College​

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1868 – 1871: President of Mississippi Baptist Convention​

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Baptist Preacher at Blue Mountain Baptist Church​

Died: February 27, 1885

Place of Death: Middleton, Hardeman County, Tennessee

Age at time of Death: 56 years old

Cause of Death: Weak Heart

Burial Place: Blue Mountain Cemetery, Blue Mountain, Mississippi

 

[gentlemanrob]

Happy early Birthday (December 30th) Brig. General Mark P. Lowery! Salutes remembering General Lowery on his upcoming birthday.

 

[DixieRifles]

Occupation after War:
Founder of the Blue Mountain College

Pre-COVID Quarantine, a local weekly group had a presentation of the past Confederate generals who founded or were presidents of colleges. The list is quite extensive.

 

[Nathan Stuart]

Mark Lowrey, a preacher, was also a brave fighter. He was an able and steady Brigade commander, who served as a trusted and reliable subordinate of Cleburne. He performed well at Ringgold Gap.

 

[Luke Freet]

Lowrey's record as a brigade commander under Patrick Cleburne was solid, doing excellent work at Ringgold Gap, Pickett's Mill, and Bald Hill (at this latter battle, he lost 578 men, possibly the heaviest casualties of any brigade on the Confederate's side that day). He would command Cleburne's Division at Jonesboro, a controversial performance where his assault was all but ended when his leading brigade (the Texans under Granbury) gave chase to enemy cavalry rather than carry on to assault the enemy's line with the rest of the army. He would go on to command Brown's Division after Franklin, before resigning in March.

 

[farrargirl]

This book is an excellent source for researching your Mississippi ancestor's service in the Civil War. Because of date written, the book includes military service in most sketches of the men profiled.

Sketch of Gen. Lowery:

 

[Luke Freet]

Lowrey twice commanded divisions into battle. First was Cleburne's at Jonesboro, second was Brown's/Cheatham's Division at Nashville. In the second instance, he was assigned as he was the next most senior brigadier in the corps, and there were no general officers left in Brown's Division after the bloodbath of Franklin. He was inches away for being killed by a sharpshooter in the trenches in Nashville. After the campaign, he all but resigned from field command and returned home.