1. Grantís Canal Located in Delta, Louisiana, just across the Mississippi River Bridge. Site features the remains of Grantís second attempt at building canal. The purpose of the canal, begun in the spring of 1862, was to create a channel for navigation that would bypass the Confederate batteries at Vicksburg. Engineers thought the scouring effect […]
Champion Heritage Foundation Books & Gifts ~ LEAVES ~ THE DIARY OF ELIZABETH MEADE INGRAHAM The Rebel Sister of General George Meade Edited by Sue Burns Moore and Rebecca Blackwell Drake ~ Preface ~ Around 1840, Alfred and Elizabeth Ingraham moved from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Claiborne County, Mississippi, where Alfred managed the banking interests […]
A Kaleidoscope of History “The Kaleidoscope fascinates us all, and we watch – and wait – sometimes holding our breath, as the patterns of color continue to change with the passage of time.” Rebecca Blackwell Drake Articles Related to Regiments Who Fought in the Battle of Raymond 3rd Tennessee Infantry Frank Herron: Boy […]
The Battle of Champion Hill, The Champion Family by Rebecca Blackwell Drake A wealth of material has been written in past years regarding the Battle of Champion Hill. On the other hand, relatively little has been recorded about the pioneer family, the Champions, whose house and property fell victim to one of the fiercest battles […]
Texas Monument Dedication Raymond Battlefield May 4, 2002 Text of Dedication Speech by Parker Hills Key participants in the Dedication of the Texas Monument: Parker Hills, speaker, Dan Laney, Master of Ceremonies, Jean Ann Ables-Flatt, Commissioner of Texas Historical Commission, David McCain, Friends of Raymond, and Terry Winschel, Historian, Historian, Vicksburg National Military Park. […]
Will Montgomery: A Mississippi Scout and Skirmisher by Kay Cornelius William A. Montgomery, Confederate scout and skirmisher from Edwards, wrote his memoirs of the war in 1916 at the age of seventy-two. Photograph courtesy of Sidney Johnson Champion He was eighteen, a veteran of fighting in Virginia and not fully recovered from a crippling […]
The Death of General John Bowen by Rebecca Blackwell Drake For the past century Civil War historians have been perplexed over the death site of General John Bowen, one of the heroes of the Vicksburg Campaign. A recently found document has provided the final piece to the puzzle and opened the key to the past. […]
Descendants of Norvell R. Granberry Researched by Jane Embrose Copyright 2002, all rights reserved Generation No. 1 1. NORVELL R.9 GRANBERRY (LOAMMI8, GEORGE7, JAMES6, MOSES5, WILLIAM4, WILLIAM3, LEONARD2 CRAMBURY, WILLIAM1) was born Abt. 1806 in GA, and died April 1850 in Madison Co. MS (Source: 1850 Madison Co. MS Mortality Schedule, “Electronic,” Norval Granberry, 44 […]
May 11th. -We drew two days’ rations and marched till noon. My company, E, being detailed for rear guard, a very undesirable position. General Logan thinks we shall have a fight soon. I am not particularly anxious for one, but if it comes I will make my musket talk. As we contemplate a battle, those […]
The Long Road Home, Ten Thousand Miles Through The Confederacy with the 68th Ohio By Private Myron B. Loop, 68th Ohio Infantry, Edited by Richard A. Baumgartner The 68th Ohio Infantry in the Battle of Raymond Excerpt from Chapter 4 The early morning of May 9 found us once more in motion. After a march […]
OLD PORT GIBSON ROAD: Civil War Route to Raymond by Rebecca Blackwell Drake Suspension bridges across Bayou Pierre near Port Gibson and at Grindstone Ford were burned by the retreating Confederate army. One of the most historic roadbeds in Mississippi, a road steeped in history yet revealing few visible signs of the past, is the […]
Seventh Texas Infantry Generals John Gregg and Hiram Granbury by Rebecca Blackwell Drake In 1861, John Gregg and Hiram B. Granbury enlisted with the 7th Regiment Texas Infantry for “Three years or the war.” As their wives followed them from battlefield to battlefield, and eventually to prison, they skillfully commanded the Confederate forces. The story […]
Mary Garth Gregg: A Steel Magnolia By Rebecca Blackwell Drake On January 11, 1864, at a train station in Dalton, Georgia, Mary Gregg said goodbye to her husband, John, as they boarded separate trains. Mary’s train would take her south to her father’s home near Decatur, Alabama, while John’s train headed north to Richmond, where […]
“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 […]
