Raymond Grows

[Busterbuttonboy]

RAYMOND, Miss. (AP) The Friends of Raymond have acquired 67 more acres of a Civil War battlefield and doubled the size of the land they hope will be permanently preserved.

The tract is part of a site where roughly 1,000 men were killed, wounded or declared missing after fighting on May 12, 1863.

The Friends of Raymond will celebrate the addition with a ribbon-cutting ceremony at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the 14 Mile Creek historical marker on Mississippi 18.

The Battle of Raymond was a part of the Union Army's campaign to capture Vicksburg, which it eventually did on July 4, 1863, following a 47-day siege of the city.

http://www2.wjtv.com/jtv/ap_exchange/mississippi_news/article/CivilWarBattlefieldAtRaymondGrowsBy67AcresMs/37337/

[Roger Hansen]

Re: Raymond Grows

Link with a little better detail.

http://friendsofraymond.org/articles/miles_purchase.htm

During the acquisition ceremony, the speaker acknowledge that it was the campaign reenactments of 1998 and 2001 that mobilized the community to form a group specifically for the preservation of the battlefield - just in front of the developers.

Job well done by the Friends of Raymond.

Roger Hansen

[btfire]

Re: Raymond Grows

To all of those that made this happen, thank you.