James E. Ballou, student 1857-1858

Ballou did not officially enlist in a military company but was killed while fighting in the Battle of Ball's Bluff near Leesburg, VA on October 21, 1861. Clement A. Evans writes in volume 3 of his Confederate Military History that Ballou "...was on business at Memphis, Tenn., when the war began, and on his way to Virginia fell in with a Mississippi regiment bound for Manassas, which he joined. At the battle of Ball's Bluff, his first encounter with the enemy, he was shot through the body and killed." The Mississippi regiment he fought with was the 13th MS Infantry.