but great in value. 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. He had served with distinction in foreign war, and, when the South was invaded, was among the first to take up arms in defense of our rights." Later in the war, a group of soldier-musicians called "The McLaws Minstrels," serving under Lafayette McLaws and formerly under General Griffith, would play at a theater in Fredericksburg. 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. His portrait hangs in Beauvoir, the Jefferson Davis Home and Presidential Library, and a copy of that portrait hangs in the Mississippi Hall of Fame in the Old Capitol Museum. Three blocks from the museum, East and West Griffith Streets are named after him. See also List of American Civil War generals (Confederate) Notes References Davis, Jefferson (1881). The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. University of Michigan: D. Appleton and Co. Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2001. . Sears, Stephen W. (1998). Chancellorsville. Houghton Mifflin. . Sifakis, Stewart. Who Was Who in the Civil War. New York: Facts On File, 1988. . Smith, Derek (2005). The Gallant Dead: Union and Confederate Generals Killed in the Civil War. Stackpole Books. . Warner, Ezra J. Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1959. . External links 1814 births 1862 deaths Military personnel from Philadelphia American people of Welsh descent Confederate States Army brigadier generals American militia generals American military personnel of the Mexican–American War Northern-born Confederates People of Mississippi in the American Civil War Confederate States of America military personnel killed in the American Civil War United States Marshals Ohio University alumni State treasurers of Mississippi 19th-century American politicians