Wagon Train Captured After Raymond

[tony_gunter]

Just stumbled across a regimental history from XIII Corps that states they were called to Mississippi Springs from Raymond to guard a wagon train that was captured there by Sherman.

I assume it was the wagon train for Gregg's Brigade, but I suppose it could have been WHT Walker's?

Kinda puts into perspective the haste with which the defenders had to hoof it back to Jackson after Raymond and the state of Johnston's defenders in Jackson, doesn't it?

 

[UCVRelics]

What regiment was it? Could it be part of Sherman's march to Meridian. Looks like a question for @alan polk

 

[tony_gunter]

What regiment was it? Could it be part of Sherman's march to Meridian. Looks like a question for @alan polk

It was after the Battle of Raymond.

Alan might have seen this source already if he's working on a Big Black River book! It's the 22nd Iowa, and they were the only regiment in Lawler's Brigade that did not charge into the meander scar. Instead, they were ordered to charge under cover of the riverbank, forming a kind of pincer on the Confederate left flank. This left them in position to scoop up the majority of the prisoners taken in the engagement as they fled to the river.

 

[tony_gunter]

I can't find any first-hand accounts from the Confederates that any wagon train was captured so I'm still at a loss whose it was! I think I should assume Gregg, which would further explain why they were posted as a diversion north of the combat at Jackson rather than engaged in the fighting.

WHT Walker's (small) brigade sallied out on the Raymond Road and attempted to delay Sherman's progress in the same way Colquitt did on the Clinton Road against McPherson, so Gregg's Brigade was the only one that did not play a combat role.