Confederate Cemetery

The Confederates at Raymond were Brig. Gen. John Gregg's brigade of Tennessee and Texas infantrymen, sent from Jackson to defend the town. Gregg attacked what he took for a raiding brigade and met two Union divisions. The 7th Texas lost 158 of the 306 men it took in, and the 3rd Tennessee counted 187 casualties. Confederate losses on May 12, 1863, were 73 killed, 252 wounded and 190 missing. Raymond became a hospital for the wounded of both armies, and the graves include men who died of their wounds.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Medgar and Myrlie Evers Home National Monument — 14 mi
  A modest ranch house in Jackson's Elraine neighborhood where Medgar Evers was shot in the driveway in 1963, now a unit of the National Park Service.
• Farish Street Historic District — 14 mi
  Jackson's Black business and cultural center, where Medgar Evers kept the NAACP office and furniture-store owners recorded the blues, now a quiet National Register district.
• Old Capitol Museum — 15 mi
  Mississippi's Greek Revival statehouse of 1839, where the legislature voted to secede, Hiram Revels was elected to the U.S. Senate and the 1890 constitution was written, now a free state museum.
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum — 15 mi
  A state museum in downtown Jackson, opened in 2017 beside the Museum of Mississippi History, that tells the movement from 1945 to 1970 through the people who made it.

More markers nearby

• McCoy Brothers — 0.4 mi
• Champion's Hill — 6.7 mi
• The Chatmon Family — 7.0 mi
• Mississippi College — 8.0 mi