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Brigadier General John Gregg’s brigade, including Tennessee and Texas infantry units under Colonels Cyrus A. Sugg, Calvin H. Walker, Randal MacGavock, Robert I. Farquharson, Hiram B. Granbury, Lieutenant Colonels James J. Turner and Thomas S. Beaumont, and Major Stephen H. Colms, moved from Port Hudson, Louisiana, to Jackson, Mississippi, arriving on May 9. Early on May 11 the brigade marched to Raymond and went into bivouac. At 9:00 a.m. on May 12 it was deployed for battle along Fourteen Mile Creek to block the Federal advance from Utica. Fighting began at 10 o’clock, and at noon Gregg launched an en echelon attack intended to turn the Federal right flank and capture enemy guns south of the creek. The attack soon faltered as additional Union brigades arrived, and a Federal counterattack by 4 p.m. forced Gregg’s men from the field. The brigade fell back through Raymond, bivouacked for the night along Snake Creek, and on May 13 withdrew to Jackson, after reporting 73 killed, 252 wounded, and 190 missing or captured.
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