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| Mississippi (Hinds County), Jackson — Monument to Women of the Confederacy | | | (South face)
Our Mothers
To the women of the Confederacy “Whose pious ministrations to our wounded soldiers soothed the last hours of those who died far from the objects of their tenderest love, whose domestic labors contributed much to supply the wants of our defenders in the field,
whose zealous faith in our cause shone a guiding star undimmed by the darkest clouds of war, whose fortitude sustained them under all the privations to which they were subjected, whose floral . . . — Map (db m16720) | | Mississippi (Hinds County), Jackson — U.S.S. Mississippi | | | Figurehead of the
Second Battleship Mississippi
Presented to the
State of Mississippi
By the U.S. Navy Department
December 1909 — Map (db m5142) | | Mississippi (Hinds County), Raymond — Battle of Raymond | | | May 12, 1863, on Fourteen Mile 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. — Map (db m26145) |
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