May 23  An Intensely Disliked Yankee
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 23/05/2016

Hollis Lees, an eighth grader at Trinity Episcopal Day School, presents a Natchez History Minute about Union Gen. Mason Brayman, commander of the Natchez District who was born on this day, May 23 in 1812.  Brayman of course, was the one who imprisoned Bishop Elder across the river in Vidalia for refusing to pray for the health of President Abraham Lincoln.