"Soldiers Retreat"

"Soldiers Retreat," located here, was the home of Ferdinand Leigh and Magdaline Claiborne. F.L. Claiborne (1772-1815) moved to the Mississippi Territory from Virginia in 1807 and served as Brig. Gen. with the 1st Mississippi Volunteers during the War of 1812 and in the territorial legislature. This was the childhood home of J.F.H. Claiborne, the son of F.L. Claiborne and an early prominent Mississippi historian, and the burial place of Rev. David Cooper, first president of the Mississippi Baptist Convention.