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Related Historical Markers
By Mark Hilton, October 5, 2019
Marker looking towards downtown on Pecan Avenue.
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
| On Pecan Avenue (Mississippi Route 19) at Columbus Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Pecan Avenue. |
| | On April 23, 1863, Union cavalry led by Col. Benjamin F. Grierson approached Philadelphia from the north en route to Newton Station. Seeing armed citizens ahead blocking the road, which ran across this block, Col. Grierson ordered his men to . . . — — Map (db m141000) HM |
| Near South Main Street at East Railroad Street, on the left when traveling south. |
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Here at Newton Station, on April. 24, 1863, Federals under General Benjamin H. Grierson struck the Vicksburg-Meridian rail route, tore up tracks, & burned depot. — — Map (db m77265) HM |
| On Louisville Street at Route 12, on the right when traveling north on Louisville Street. |
| | During the Vicksburg Campaign, a Union cavalry raid led by Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson moved from LaGrange, Tennessee, toward the Southern Railroad at Newton, Mississippi. On the afternoon of April 21, 1863, Grierson's cavalrymen rode into . . . — — Map (db m102566) HM |
| On West Railroad Avenue at Robb Street, on the right when traveling north on West Railroad Avenue. |
| | On the morning of April 30, 1963, Union Col. B.H. Grierson led the 6th and 7th Illinois Cavalry south on the New Orleans, Jackson and Greta Northern Railroad, burning the Bogue Chitto depot and a number of bridges, trestles, water towers, . . . — — Map (db m117518) HM |
| On 3rd Street (State Highway 57), on the right when traveling west. |
| | From here, Col. Benjamin H. Grierson's task force (6th Ill., 7th Ill., 2nd Ind. Cav., Btry "K", 1st Ill. Art.) raided into the deep south. Using as advanced guard Federals in Confederate uniform and other stratagems, he cut the Mobile & Ohio RR at . . . — — Map (db m19303) HM |
May. 17, 2024
