Carnot Posey Home

Carnot Posey went home to Woodville from law school at the University of Virginia, practiced law, planted, and was wounded at Buena Vista with Jefferson Davis's Mississippi Rifles. President Buchanan made him a federal prosecutor for southern Mississippi; he resigned at secession, raised the Wilkinson Rifles, and led the 16th Mississippi, then a brigade, at Fredericksburg and Gettysburg. A shell fragment struck his thigh at Bristoe Station on October 14, 1863. He died a month later in Room 33 West Lawn, where he had lived as a student.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Clark Creek Natural Area — 13 mi
  A 700-acre ravine preserve in the Tunica Hills with about 50 waterfalls on loess bluffs, reached by a 4.9-mile loop trail, foot traffic only.
• Audubon State Historic Site — 21 mi
  Oakley House, where Audubon taught drawing and painted 32 birds in 1821, and the two cabins behind it where four Black families lived through slavery, Reconstruction and Jim Crow.
• Louisiana State Penitentiary Museum — 21 mi
  The Angola museum outside the penitentiary gate, opened in 1997 on the history of crime and punishment in Louisiana, on ground where convicts were leased out as what 64 Parishes calls legal slave labor.
• Rosedown Plantation State Historic Site — 21 mi
  A cotton plantation worked by hundreds of enslaved people, whose names survive in an 1862 succession list; the Turnbull house and gardens, and the quarters nobody has yet found.

More markers nearby

• The Woodville Republican — steps away
• William Grant Still — steps away
• Woodville Blues — 0.2 mi
• Fort Adams — 0.2 mi