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(March 2012) Enlarge Holly Springs, MS
 
First Presbyterian Church

(March 2012) Enlarge Holly Springs, MS
 
Hugh Craft House

Link:
1. Historic Places - Marshall County MSGenWeb

      

(March 2012) Enlarge Hugh Craft House interpretive marker

(March 2000) Enlarge   Detail Holly Springs, MS
 
Marshall County Historical Museum, 220 East Avenue, Holly Springs. Marker in foreground: From this vicinity on the morning of December 20th, 1862 General Van Dorn C.S.A. with his cavalry began the famous raid upon General Grant's supplies in Holly Springs

      

(March 2000) Holly Springs, MS
 
SH-4 (wartime Ashland Road) at east edge of Holly Springs. View looking west toward the bridge crossing the wartime Mississippi Central Railroad. One of Van Dorn's two columns supposedly entered Holly Springs on Ashland Road

Link:
1. Van Dorn's Historic Raid on Holly Springs

2. Raid on Holly Springs, Mississippi — History.com
3. Van Dorn's Holly Springs Raid | Blue & Gray Education Society

4. Visit Holly Springs :: Van Dorn Raid
5. Civil War Traveler: Vicksburg, Mississippi, First Phases

 

(March 2000) Enlarge Looking south at the depot area from the SH-4 (Ashland Road) Bridge

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