After the Battle of Raymond, the official casualty count totaled 1,266, with the Federals reporting 66 killed, 339 wounded, and 37 missing in action, and the Confederates reporting 73 killed, 251 wounded, and 190 missing. Because casualty reporting was questionable, at least 590 wounded certainly remained in and around Raymond as the armies moved on. In 1863, Raymond's population was primarily women, children, and elderly men, since most able-bodied men were serving in the Confederate army. The townspeople were deeply shocked as wounded and dying soldiers came in from the battlefield on foot or in wagons, but they quickly responded. Most buildings in town became makeshift hospitals, and wounded soldiers from both sides were nursed for days, weeks, and even months. A soldier of the 41st Tennessee recalled seeing ladies in Raymond bringing quilts and bandages for the wounded and continuing their work even while enemy shells flew through houses. Years later, Letitia Dabney, who was eleven years old in 1863, remembered her sisters helping receive and care for the wounded behind the lines while Raymond was in Federal lines, with the courthouse used as a Confederate hospital, the churches filled with wounded Union soldiers, flies swarming in the absence of antiseptic surgery, and many young soldiers dying.
