Carnot Posey was born near Woodville in Wilkinson County, Mississippi, the second son and fourth of eight children of planter John Brooke Posey and Elizabeth Screven Posey.
|Woodville, Wilkinson County, Mississippi|
|University of Virginia|
He returned to his family's plantation and later established a law practice in Woodville.
He was 42 years old when the Civil War began.
|Woodville, Mississippi Historical Marker|
|Battle of Buena Vista|
|Carnot Posey Home in Woodville, Mississippi|
|Mississippi Counties Forming the 16th Mississippi Infantry|
Posey recruited a local militia company, the Wilkinson Rifles, and enlisted them into Confederate service, serving as their captain from May 21, 1861. They became part of the 16th Mississippi Infantry, with Posey being selected as the regiment's first colonel on June .
His two oldest sons from his first marriage, Stanhope and Jefferson, also served as officers in the Confederate Army. Stanhope served as assistant adjutant general to his father.
|Battle of Cross Keys|
|Winfield Scott Featherston|
|Confederate Dead at Sunken Road, Antietam|
|Union Attack on Rebel Works at Fredericksburg|
Illustration by Alfred Waud
|Confederate Dead at Chancellorsville|
|Illustration of Battle of Bristoe Station in Harpers Weekly|
|The Lawn, University of Virginia|
Infection set in and he was transported for care to the University of Virginia, where the rooms on the Lawn all served as Confederate hospital rooms.
|West Lawn Room|
|John S. Davis|
He died on November 13, 1863, in the home of his good friend, Dr. John S. Davis, in Charlottesville, Virginia. He was 45 years old.
|Grave of Carnot Posey|