Sep 3  The Shelling of Natchez, Part II
Channel: Natchez National Historical Park
Date: 03/09/2016

In today's Natchez History Minute, Bee Byrnes continues the story of the shelling of Natchez by the USS Essex and tells the sad story of seven year-old, Rosalie Beekman. The young girl was struck by shrapnel and died on this day, September 3, 1862, becoming Natchez's only civilian casualty of the Civil War.