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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LK5_eyewitnesses-in-the-storm_Raymond-MS.html
"One officer, not more than thirty feet from where I stood, quietly loaded up an old Meerschaum, lit a match, his pistol hanging form his wrist, and when he had got his pipe agoing, he got hold of his pistol again, and went on poppi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LK4_a-soldiers-battle-in-the-underbrush_Raymond-MS.html
Upstream, to your left, Confederate and Union soldiers fought through the creek's thick underbrush. Here at the far right of the Confederate line, Col. Hiram Granbury's 7th Texas regiment, CSA, charged into the thickets but were confronted by Ohio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LK3_c-s-greggs-task-force_Raymond-MS.html
C.S. Gregg's Task Force
Brig. Gen. John Gregg
1st Tennessee Infantry Battalion
Maj. Stephen H. Colms
This battalion was initially posted north of here to the right of Bledsoe's battery in support of the three guns. About 2 p.m., Major Colms wa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LK2_the-campaign-turns-east_Raymond-MS.html
By late afternoon, as Brig. Gen. John Gregg, his officers, and soldiers realized they were seriously outnumbered they managed to extricate themselves from the fight and withdraw through Raymond to Jackson.
From here you can see the road that fo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LIL_greggs-battle-plan_Raymond-MS.html
Confederate Brig. Gen. John Gregg arrived in Raymond on May 11 with orders from Pemberton to contain the right flank of the Federal army as it advanced north and determine where it was heading. Thinking he faced a force only half the size of his, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LIG_mcphersons-deployment_Raymond-MS.html
Marching north toward Raymond on the Utica Road, the vanguard of Logan's Union division was met by gunfire as the soldiers approached the Fourteenmile Creek bridge. Although confident that he outnumbered the enemy, Maj. Gen. James McPherson cautio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LIF_degolyers-battery-and-the-artists-eye_Raymond-MS.html
As soon as the fighting broke out that morning, six guns of the 8th Michigan Light Artillery, marching near the front of the column, unlimbered and "went into battery" about a hundred yards from the bridge. They returned fire on the Conf…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LIE_u-s-8th-battery-michigan-light-artillery_Raymond-MS.html
U.S. 8th Battery,
Michigan Light Artillery;
3d Div.; 17th Corps; Army of the Tennessee.
Capt. Samuel De Golyer.
This battery of "flying artillery" was the initial battery of Maj. Gen. John A. Logan's division to arrive on the field a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LI8_the-vicksburg-campaign_Raymond-MS.html
"Vicksburg is the key," said President Abraham Lincoln. "The war can never be brought to a close until that key is in our pocket."
The United States government had to control the lower Mississippi River in order to move agri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LI7_the-little-j-railroad_Raymond-MS.html
Two historic transportation routes are incorporated into this walking trail.
The concrete highway, ca. 1927, is generally the same route used by the Union army marching toward Raymond in May 1863. The bridge and highway, however, are more eleva…