Battle of Raymond

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Raymond Battlefield
Walking/Interpretive
Trail. March 2007
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(3-93) SH-18 Interpretive marker for the Battle of Raymond. The view is looking northeast toward MacGavock Hill. Fourteenmile Creek is in the background running across the picture. Marker: May 12, 1863, on Fourteenmile Creek, 2,500 Confederate troops under Gen. John Gregg attacked a 10,000 man corps under Gen. James B. McPherson. Outnumbered, Gregg was forced to withdraw to Jackson

 

(3-93) SH-18 Fourteenmile Creek Bridge. McPherson Ridge, where Gen. McPherson observed the battle is in the distant right background. Artillery Ridge at right center of picture
 
March 2001 Panorama (North of the bridge)
 
March 2005 Panorama (South of the bridge)

       

(3-05) Fourteenmile Creek from SH-18 bridge. The view is looking east

 

(3-05 Fourteenmile Creek from SH-18 bridge. The view is looking west. Old SH-18 (Utica Road) bridge is in the background

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