Inscription. Federal forces occupied LaGrange during the war,
1862-1865, and made it an important supply base. Gen. William T.
Sherman established his headquarters here when the occupation
began in 1862. In April 1863, Union Col. Benjamin H. Grierson
left here with a combined force of cavalry and artillery on an
extended raid deep into Mississippi to disrupt Confederate
supply lines before the Union advance on Vicksburg. Gen. Andrew
J. Smith started from LaGrange with another Union task force in
July 1864 in a northern Mississippi campaign that included the
Battle of Tupelo on July 14. Col. Edward Bouton's brigade of
U.S. Colored Troops was in Smith's command. By Lee Hattabaugh,
October 21, 2010 |1. LaGrange Marker| Many historic buildings
associated with LaGrange's Civil War story still stand.
Woodlawn, completed in 1828, was Sherman's headquarters and a
Union army hospital. Hancock Hall, which was finished in 1857,
served as Gen. Stephen A. Hurlbut's headquarters. Gen. Ulysses
S. Grant stayed there during a