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Confederate Veteran, Vol. XV, February, 1907.
Col. M.M. DUFFIE passed away at his home in
Malvern, Ark., Sept. 12, 1906, after a lingering illness of general debility,
having reached the ripe age of 74 years. He was a native of South Carolina,
and graduated from Erskine College, in 1856. He studied law under Judge F.W.
Campbell and was admitted to the bar in 1858 at Princeton.
When the war broke out, he organized a
company of ninety-nine men; strange to say, there was but one married man in
the whole company . With this company he enlisted in the Confederate army in
May, 1861, joining the 6th Regiment of Arkansas Infantry, Army of Tennessee.
He rose to various grades during the war, and participated in nearly all the
battles his regiment was engaged in. He was severely wounded at Chickamauga
and when paroled he was lieutenant colonel of his regiment. After the war, he
returned to Arkansas and resumed the practice of law. He represented Dallas
County in the State legislature in 1868, was elected to the Stae Senate in
1879. He returned to Arkansas and settled in Malvern, associating with him his
son, WILLIAM R. DUFFIE, in the law and resided there until his death. He was
married to MISS COOKSEY in 1866.
He was buried by the Masonic fraterrnity
with the members of Van H. Manning Camp., U.C.V.
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