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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 19 (search)
arily to garrison Port Gibson, marched on the Raymond road to Willow Springs; on the sixth to Rockyto the right. The flight of the enemy from Raymond left the way open to Jackson, the capital of Baker's Creek a mile eastward, on the road to Raymond, and halted. Hovey's division followed in su to Old Auburn, to guard and bring forward to Raymond the army's trains. That night the same divisrteenth found General Osterhaus's division in Raymond, which, in pursuance of Major-General Grant's Carr's and Hovey's divisions marched through Raymond in a heavy rain-storm — the former to Forest ion. It was found three roads led from the Raymond and Bolton road to Edwards's Station-one diverging a mile and a half north of Raymond, a second three miles and a half, and a third seven and a up during the night, and bivouacked north of Raymond, near General Carr's. General Blair's divisioat the enemy was moving in large force on the Raymond road with the hope of turning my left flank a[3 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 27 (search)
retreated toward Jackson after his defeat at Raymond, and of information that reinforcements were ackson road; McClernand moved to a point near Raymond. The next day Sherman and McPherson moved sion, of McPherson's corps, was moving toward Raymond on the Utica road. It was not the intention burgh and Jackson Railroad with the road from Raymond to Bolton, I found McPherson's advance and hie mile and to where it intersected one of the Raymond roads, turns almost to the west, down the hil, I found he was retreating. Arriving at the Raymond road, I saw to my left and on the next ridge s Depot road, aud the other (Tuttle's) toward Raymond. Whilst there we heard that the enemy had met General McPherson near Raymond, and was defeated. Next morning we marched to Raymond, and passRaymond, and passed on to Mississippi Springs, where we surprised a cavalry picket, capturing them, and on the folloOur land forces united, then pushed on toward Raymond and Jackson, and when at Champion Hills, near[3 more...]
Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 7. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 149 (search)
the Canton road, at right angles to that upon which the enemy approached, prevented an obstinate defence. A body of troops, reported this morning to have reached Raymond last night, advanced at the same time from that direction. Prisoners say that it was McPherson's corps (four divisions) which marched from Clinton. I have no cer miles south of Edwards's Depot, May sixteenth, stating it had reached him at thirty minutes past six that morning; that it found the army on the middle road to Raymond. The order of countermarch has been issued. Owing to the destruction of a bridge on Baker's Creek, which runs, for some distance, parallel with the railroad, anibility of success to be in the plan proposed, of cutting off the enemy's supplies, I directed all my disposable force-say seventeen thousand five hundred--toward Raymond or Dillon's. It also contained intelligence of his engagement with the enemy on the sixteenth, near Baker's Creek, three or four miles from Edwards's Depot, an