As Confederates kept up pressure on retreating Federals in the ravine to the distant front, Sergeant Willis W. Davis of West Feliciana was killed near this intersection while leading an attack beside Colonel Frank Powers. Davis was an 1854 graduate of Centenary College. In August 1863, the old Feliciana Courthouse, built 1818-1820, was the home of Reverend David Kinnear, a Methodist Episcopal minister, and his wife Elizabeth, a school teacher, natives of Pennsylvania and New York. The yellow house to the left, the Baptist parsonage built circa 1836, was occupied in March 1863 by Dr. Augustus L. East, an assistant surgeon at the Confederate Hospital at Centenary College, but by July 1863 the hospital had moved to Woodville, Mississippi, and Dr. East had left, so the house was probably vacant during the Battle of Jackson. The large white two-storied McBrannon house, built circa 1835, was the home of Dr. Preston Pond and his wife, Adeline, both natives of New Hampshire. Dr. Pond's four sons all served in the Confederate army; the eldest, Colonel Preston Pond, Jr., raised the 16th Louisiana Infantry Regiment in 1861 and commanded a brigade at the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, and a second son, Captain Henry J. Pond, raised an infantry company known as the Jackson Rifles in the spring of 1861. The white frame house with the raised basement, Christmas Cottage, built 1836-37, was the home of the notary Aaron Robinson, whose daughter Thursey died on May 26, 1863, followed by his wife Melissa on June 1, 1863.