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
3rd Tennessee Infantry 10th Tennessee Infantry (Irish)
- Patrick Griffin: The Adventure of a Lifetime
- The Ties That Bind: McGavock And Griffin
- The Exploits of Patrick Griffin: "He Must Have Been Irish"
- The Exploits of Patrick Griffin: "Finding A Gold Mine"
- The Exploits of Patrick Griffin: "The Great Escape"
- Randal McGavock: Battlefield Casualty
- Randal McGavock: "Griffin, Take Care Of Me!"
- Mary Garth Gregg: A Steel Magnolia
- Mary Gay: Visits Granbury's Brigade
- Pvt. William McMills: Texas Soldier Remembered
- E. T. Broughton: "Among The Missing"
- E. T. Broughton: Letters to Mollie
- Texas Monument Dedicated
- Frank James: Killed In The Battle Of Raymond
- Researching The 7th Texas Infantry
- General John Gregg: The End Of The Story
- Seventh Texas Infantry: Generals John Gregg And Hiram B. Granbury
- Fannie Sims Granbury: Shrouded By Mystery
- The Search For Fannie Sims Granbury: Wife Of Brigadier General Hiram B. Granbury
- The Battle of Raymond, T. B. Riggin, Hall's Scouts
- Mary Dabney Ware: In Her Own Words "Behind Enemy Lines"
- Old Jerry: "They Said I was a Hero"
- Raymond Fencibles, Part I
- Raymond Fencibles, Part II
- Frederick C. Hibbard: Raymond Confederate Monument
- Frederick C. Hibbard: Master Sculptor
- Raymond Confederate Cemetery
- Old Port Gibson Road: Civil War Route To Raymond
- Waverly: Grant's Headquarters
- The Women Of Raymond
- Recollections Of The Battle Of Raymond, Letitia Dabney
- Recollections Of The Battle Of Raymond, Estelle Trichell
- The Hinds County Gazette
- Brothers Fight In The Battle Of Raymond
Raymond History
A series on the history of Raymond
by Rebecca B. Drake,
originally published in the Hinds County Gazette
- Established in 1828 as Hinds County Seat
- Raymond in the 1840s and 1850s
- Cooper's Well
- Pre-Civil War Hotels
- The Raymond Courthouse
- Battlefield Doubles in Size by Parker Hills
- Patrick Griffin: In His Own Words by J. R. Reddig, great-great nephew
- Reporter Wounded at Battle of Raymond, "A Compact and Vigorous Engagement at Close Quarters" by Parker Hills
- Will Montgomery: A Mississippi Scout and Skirmisher by Kay Cornelius
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The Most Appalling Disaster Jackson,
Mississippi Arsenal Explosion,
November 5, 1862 by H. Grady Howell, Jr. - Resurrecting A Buried Southern Treasure In the Town of Raymond, Mississippi by Tom Hughes
- Family History: Hiram Granbury by Tom Holder
- A Misleading Headstone Leads to the Search for General Hiram B. Granbury by Jane Embrose
- General Hiram B. Granbury/Granberry Genealogy (by Jane Embrose, descendant of the Granberry family)
- Texas Monument Dedication Raymond Battlefield, May 4, 2002 by Parker Hills
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