Richard Griffith (general)

Richard Griffith (January 11, 1814 – June 29, 1862) was a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

He was promoted to brigadier general on November 2 and put in command of a brigade of four Mississippi regiments that became part of Maj. Gen. John B. Magruder's division in April 1862.

Among others who could ill be spared, here fell the gallant soldier, the useful citizen, the true friend and Christian gentleman, Brigadier General Richard Griffith.

They charged a modest admission fee, the proceeds from which were used to erect a monument in the Mississippi State Capitol in honor of their fallen commander.

[6] His portrait hangs in Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library, and a copy in the Mississippi Hall of Fame in the Old Capitol Museum.

Copy of the portrait of Richard Griffith that hangs in the Old Capital Museum's Mississippi Hall of Fame.
The burial site of Gen. Richard Griffith in Greenwood Cemetery in Jackson, Mississippi .
Griffith's widow, Sallie Ann Whitfield, their son Benjamin (mayor of Vicksburg), his wife Cora and their seven children.