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- History: 1842 Moved to Farmington, MS, USA., located four miles from the present town of Corinth, MS, USA. Here he became a brick mason. 1847 Served in the Mexican War. 1850 Tishomingo Co. MS. no children. 1860 Tishomingo Co., MS, USA. seven children. 1861 At start of Civil War he was living at Kossuth, MS, USA. nine miles southwest of Corinth, MS, USA. He was
pastor of the Baptist churches at Kossuth and Ripley. He served in the 32nd Mississippi Regiment and was a Colonel at the begining of the war. He was wounded at the battle of Perryville, KY, USA. When General Lowery was wounded and returned home to convalesce he realized he could not return to Kossuth as the Yankees were nearby. He had his brother Calvin go get his family and bring them to a cabin he had rented at Tippah, located eight miles south of Ripley, close to his brother Calvin. Here they lived three years. In Oct.1865 Mark bought a place two miles nearer Ripley. Four years later he traded it for the Brougher Place, the present location of Blue Mountain College. After the war for seven years he was the editor of the Mississippi Department of "The Baptist" which was publshed in Memphis. 1869 Mark decided to undertake the founding of a school for girls in the northern part of the state. It was opened Sept. 1873 with forty students enrolled, a few of them boys. Fourteen were boaders ($12.00 amonth) for forty sessions. Named Blue Mountain Female Institute. Fourteen years in sucession he was elected President of the Mississippi Baptist State Convention. Several times he served as Trustee of the State University and also of the Mississippi College at Clinton. When Modena married Rev. W. E. Berry in 1876 Rev. Berry bought a half interest in the school and the owners became the firm of "Lowrey & Berry". 1877 the school was chartered as Blue Mountain College.
Brigadier-General Mark P. Lowrey, one of the brigade commanders of Cleburne's celebrated division, became colonel of the Thirty-second Mississippi, in the Confederate service April 3, 1862. After more than a year's service in north Mississippi and Tennessee he was promoted to brigadier-general, October 6, 1863. This was after the battle of Chickamauga, where every brigade and regiment of Cleburne's division was hotly engaged.
At Missionary Ridge, Cleburne's division repulsed every attack made upon it, and at Ringgold Gap defeated Hooker and saved Bragg's army and its wagon train. Lowrey's brigade bore its full share of these noble achievements.
For the battle of Ringgold, Cleburne and all his officers and men received the thanks of the Confederate Congress. During the hundred days of marching and fighting from Dalton to Atlanta and all around the doomed city, and at Jonesboro, Cleburne's men sustained their high reputatior, and there were none among them better than the brave soldiers of Lowrey's brigade, nor a leader more skillful and intrepid than he.
One of the most spirited, and to the Confederates successful, affairs of the whole campaign was at Pickett's mill, in May, where Cleburne's division repulsed the furious onset of Howard's whole corps, inflicting on the Federals a loss many times their own. In this affair Kelly's cavalry, consisting of Allen's and Hannon's Alabama brigades, first encountered a body of Federal cavalry supported by the Fourth corps.
Cleburne, seeing the maneuver to turn his right, brought Granbury's brigade to Kelly's support, while Govan sent the Eighth and Ninth Arkansas regiments under Colonel Baucum to the assistance of Kelly. This little body met the foremost of the Federal troops as they were reaching the prolongation of Granbury's line, and charging gallantly drove them back and saved the Texans from a flank attack.
General Johnston in his report says: "Before the Federal left could gather to overwhelm Baucum and his two regiments, Lowrey's brigade, hurried by General Cleburne from its position, as left of his second line, came to join them, and the two, formed abreast of Granbury's brigade, stopped the advance of the enemy's left and successfully resisted its subsequent attacks." The victory was one of the most brilliant won by the Confederates during the Atlanta campaign.
At the battle of Atlanta, 22nd of July, Lowrey's brigade captured some of the eight cannon taken from the enemy by
Cleburne's division. General Lowrey went safely through the fierce battles of Franklin and Nashville, and led his men on the disheartening retreat from Tennessee and in the campaign in the Carolinas in 1865.
Source: Confederate Military History, vol. IX, p. 261 [3]
- LOWREY, GENERAL MARK PERRIN (031231) mentioned/ was born in McNairy County, Tenn., Dec. 29, 1828/ his father, Adam Lowrey, was a native of Ireland/ his mother, Margaret Doss, was the daughter of an English woman who was kidnapped and sent to America/ his father died near Natchez in 1837/ there were 9 children in his family/ married Sarah R. Holmes in Lincoln County, Tenn., at age 21/ had eleven children-living are Modena Berry, Mrs. Maggie L. Anderson (widow of Rev. J.D. Anderson of Mobile), Mrs. Janie L. Graves (Canton, China), Mrs. Linnie T. Ray, Dr. W.T. Lowrey, Judge P.H. Lowrey (Marks, Miss.), Dr. B.G. Lowrey (Oxford), J.J. Lowrey (Dallas, Texas), Mrs. Sallie L. Potter (Widow of Dr. W.D. Potter of Clinton, Ms.)/ deceased children are Booth Lowrey (father of P.H. Lowrey of Baltimore and of Dr. Lawrence T. Lowrey) and T.C. Lowrey. [4]
- Was the youngest of 5 sons [5]
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1828 - 1885 (56 years)
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