GENERAL JOHN GREGG: THE END OF THE STORY by Rebecca Blackwell Drake In 1858, when General John Gregg and Mary Francis Garth were united in marriage, both were thirty years old. Standing before a magistrate in Morgan County, Alabama, they repeated their vows, “In sickness and in health – Till death do us part. Little […]
Official Reports & Correspondence Excerpts from The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies By an act approved June 23, 1874, Congress made an appropriation “to enable the Secretary of War to begin the publication of the Official Records of the War of the […]
Raymond Battlefield Walking Trail Project The first walking trail to be constructed on the Raymond battlefield—an asphalt ribbon that will encircle the 23.6 acre Friends of Raymond tract located at Fourteenmile Creek west of modern Highway 18—is now completed. Funding for the nearly $250,000 trail comes from an ISTEA (Intermodal Surface Transportation Equity Act) federal […]
Grant’s March from Bruinsburg to Raymond“Indeed, it was nothing but a great game of chess that was being played, only we, the moving pieces, had life and blood.”Major S. H. M. Byers, 5th Iowa Infantry General Ulysses S. Grant described the road to Raymond in the following excerpts from Personal Memoirs of U.S. […]
1. Grant’s Canal In Delta, LA. From I-20, take Exit 186 to US-80. A segment of the Williams/Grant canal still exists. The canal was started by Brig. Gen. Thomas Williams and Rear Adm. David Farragut in late June, 1862. The effort was abandoned in late July, 1862. Grant resumed work on the project in the […]
NEW Remembering the “Bonnie Blue Flag” & Harry Macarthy By Sue Burns Moore It is a close race as to whether “Dixie” or the “Bonnie Blue Flag” was the most popular song of the South during the war, for both strongly gripped Southern hearts. During the Vicksburg siege, steamboats on the Mississippi River played […]
NEW Remembering the “Bonnie Blue Flag” & Harry Macarthy By Sue Burns Moore It is a close race as to whether “Dixie” or the “Bonnie Blue Flag” was the most popular song of the South during the war, for both strongly gripped Southern hearts. During the Vicksburg siege, steamboats on the Mississippi River played […]
The Battle of Raymond May 12, 1863 by Francis Vinton Greene From CAMPAIGNS OF THE CIVIL WAR: THE MISSISSIPPI, published by Scribner & Sons, 1882 On the night of May 11th Grant had his army well in hand, and the orders for the next day were to move forward into position on Fourteen Mile Creek, […]
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Guest Writers Civil War Articles by Guest Writers Will Montgomery: A Mississippi Scout and Skirmisher by Kay Cornelius Copyright © Kay Cornelius Kay Cornelius, published author and historian, grew up in Tennessee, and has lived in Huntsville, Alabama, since 1958. She is the author of eight historical fiction romances, one historical novella, two contemporary romances, […]
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 […]