This battlefield is one of the sites where Union troops engaged the Confederates in their march towards Vicksburg during the Vicksburg Campaign, a critical campaign in the War Between the States. View cannons and sections of the battle from along the roads outside Raymond or take a walking trail.
If you go:
Pick up a free map of the interpretative walking trail at one of these businesses in Raymond: Merchants and Planters Bank, the Hinds County Courthouse, the Raymond Chamber of Commerce, or the Mayor's office. Watch for sesquicentennial celebration events for the Civil War in 2013.
Links:

15726-16270 Mississippi 18
Raymond, Mississippi 39154 USA
Mailing address:
Friends of Raymond
Parker Hills, President
P.O. Box 1162
Raymond, MS 39154 USA
Phone Numbers:
Friends of Raymond
+1 (601) 857-8044
+1 (601) 857-8044