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On May 12, 1863, C.S. Gregg’s task force included miscellaneous attached units. The 1st Mississippi Battalion State Troops, under Capt. James Hall, sent a 40-man detachment to picket the road to Utica and contest McPherson’s advance, but it could not penetrate the 160-man Federal cavalry screen. A squadron of Wirt Adams’ Mississippi Cavalry, under Capt. William Yerger, consisted of 50 troopers who patrolled northwest of Raymond to protect the roads to the railroad and to Clinton and Jackson. The 3d Kentucky Mounted Infantry, under Col. Albert P. Thompson, brought six companies from Jackson at the end of the battle and helped cover Gregg’s retreat. Casualties were not reported.
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