“Come on Riggin, the Day is Lost” by Rebecca Blackwell Drake A first- hand account of the Battle of Raymond written by Thomas. B. Riggin, a member of Hall’s Scouts, a state company, who patrolled the Utica-Raymond road the night before the battle. On May 12, 1863, the night before the Battle of Raymond, General […]
Order of Battle Battle of Raymond, May 12, 1863 Official Reports, where available, are hyperlinked Confederate Forces Gregg’s Task Force, Brig. Gen. John Gregg Gregg’s Brigade, Col. Cyrus A. Sugg CASUALTIES Infantry Killed Wounded Missing 3rd Tennessee Infantry, Col. C. H. Walker 27 91 70 10th & 30th Tennessee Consolidated, Col. R. W. McGavock (k), […]
Abernathy, Samuel H., Co A, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Alexander, Sgt. Robert H., Co D, 7th Texas Infantry Allen, Benjamin L., Co E, 12th Louisiana Infantry Allen, Sgt. B. S., Co A, 50th Tennessee Infantry Alley, William B., Co I, 3rd Tennessee Infantry Bagley, William H., Co A, 41st Tennessee Infantry Barrett, Patrick, Co K, 10th […]
Raymond Battlefield Doubles in Size by Parker Hills The new 66-acre core battlefield acquisition shown in yellow. Map courtesy of the Civil War Preservation Trust. On June 30, 2009, the issue was settled–the bucolic fields along Highway 18 south of Raymond would remain that way, even though the fight to save them lasted 1,065 days, […]
Col. H. B. Granbury, Seventh Texas Infantry. IN CAMP NEAR CALHOUN STATION, MISS. May 15, 1863. CAPTAIN: On Tuesday, the 12th instant, about 9 a.m., I received orders from Brigadier-General [John] Gregg to move my regiment from its position in camp near Raymond, Miss., to a point about 1 mile south of the town, near […]
~Portraits~ Generals and Commanders by Rebecca Blackwell Drake Excepts from In Their Own Words: Soldiers Tell the Story of the Battle of Raymond Portrait of a Hero in Gray Colonel Randal McGavock 10th Tennessee Infantry 1826-1863 Randal William McGavock began keeping a diary as early as 1848, when he was a student at Harvard. The […]