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The Raymond Fencibles By Rebecca Blackwell Drake  “O ye, in silent, comradeship asleep, in the long bivouac of the martyred dead, Ye are not yet forgotten – nor can be, while in this fair magnolia land there blooms A fragrant flower with which to deck your graves.”  Part II William A. Montgomery The men who […]

The Hinds County Gazette, founded in 1844 by George W. Harper, is the second oldest newspaper in Mississippi publishing on a weekly basis. For half a century, nothing stopped the proud editor from printing his weekly newspaper. However, there were several major events in town that caused temporary problems. First, the big fire of 1858 […]

Sam C. Mitchell 3rd Tennessee Infantry “THE BATTLE OF RAYMOND, The Mistakes of Pemberton and the Bravery of Our Boys” From The Pulaski Citizen, May 10, 1888 When I left the brigade it was on the march to the N.O.J. & G.N. R.R. to take the cars for Jackson. We took the train at Osyka, […]

THE BATTLE OF RAYMOND From Weekly Philadelphia Times, Nov. 26, 1881. by William E. Cunningham Editor’s Note: This vivid description of the Battle of Raymond was taken from “Military Annals of Tennessee, Confederate, Vol. I: Regimental Histories and Memorial Rolls of the Forty First Tennessee” edited and published in 1886 by John Berrien Lindsley. The […]

Union infantry moves forward to meet the enemy during the Battle of Champion Hill The Missouri battle flag, featuring the Roman cross, identifies General John Bowen’s Missouri Brigade who fought in the Battle of Champion Hill

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Reported Dead Following the Battle of Raymond FRANK JAMES: A Family Man by Rebecca Blackwell Drake In March of 1863, Frank James of East Texas, left home and joined Company H, 7th Texas Infantry. His service in the Confederate Army was brief. Two months after enlisting, James died from a wound he received during the […]

Reporter Wounded at Battle of Raymond “A Compact and Vigorous Engagement at Close Quarters”   By Parker Hills Theodore R. Davis, Civil War Artist and Harper’s Weekly Correspondent May 12, 1863 – Peering through the dust and smoke of battle, Theodore R. Davis, an artist and newspaper correspondent, was covering the Civil War for Harper’s […]

Historic Civil War Site Acquired By Natchez Trace Parkway Dillon’s Plantation Witnesses History Again By Rebecca Drake and Parker Hills Fran Mainell, James Little, Mickey Black, Lou Gallegos and John Nau, III, witness the transfer of Dillon’s Farm to the National Park Service. On the night of May 12, 1863, at Dillon’s Plantation just six […]

Visitor Information Contact Information Webmaster: [email protected]   General Information E-mail: [email protected] City of Raymond Isla Tullos, Mayor 114 Courtyard Square Raymond, MS 39154 (601) 857-8041 E-mail: [email protected] Chamber of Commerce John Barber, Executive Director 114 Courtyard Square Raymond, MS 39154 (601) 857-8942 E-mail: [email protected] Friends of Raymond, Inc. Parker Hills, President P.O. Box 1162 Raymond, […]

SOMEBODY’S DARLING: Songs of the Civil War by Rebecca Blackwell Drake On Saturday, October 9th, at 4:30 p.m., Lester Senter, concert artist, will present a Jubliee [musical happening] at the Courthouse in Raymond. “During the war years,” Senter commented, “A favorite recreation of the Confederate Army was to gather and stage singing events. According to […]

Raymond Battlefield: Named in Top Ten Most Endangered Battlefields by Rebecca Blackwell Drake Hinds County Gazette, March 15, 2001 The Civil War Preservation Trust, the largest nonprofit battlefield preservation organization in the United States, recently named the Raymond Battlefield as one of the ten most endangered Civil War battlefields in America. The announcement was made […]

Video Tells Story of the Battle of Raymond Hinds County Gazette, November 22, 2001 Friends of Raymond is proud to announce that the 22-minute video telling the story of the Battle of Raymond is now available. The video features combined photography from the 2001 re- enactment and the 1998 re-enactment. “Billy Ivy, owner of I-V […]

Ribbon Cutting for Endangered Battlefield by Rebecca Blackwell Drake Saturday, November 28th, at 1:00 p.m. was a proud day for the City of Raymond and for all interested in the preservation of its historic sites. David McCain, President of the Friends of Raymond, and Isla Tullos, Mayor of Raymond, delighted the crowd by cutting the […]