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The Battle of Droop Mountain, the largest and bloodiest WV Civil War battle
or force Confederate troops to withdraw from, Tennessee to protect the railroad. On Nov. 6, 1863, Brigadier General William W. Averell led a troop of nearly 5,000 Union soldiers to the Droop ...
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THE PRISONERS.; A REBEL DESCRIPTION OF THE QUARTERS. ABSTRACTION OF SUPPLIES. HOME SICKNESS. A FEMALE SOLDIER. FROM WEST TENNESSEE.
Several soldiers who were found going about the ... In prosecuting the search, the detectives came across a large number of Confederate grain bags in a shop, corner of Main and Twenty-first ...
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The Klan in Florida
The Klan was first organized in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee, by ex-Confederate soldiers. The first Imperial Wizard was former Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forest, who disbanded the Klan in ...
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Drought and guerillas led to a food and water shortage which enabled the Confederate Army to invade Kentucky in 1862
Throughout written history weather events have influenced military outcomes. Scholars can point to Napoleon’s disastrous 1812 ...
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The Civil War By the Numbers
Pillow, Tennessee on April 12 ... 74 congressionally-mandated national cemeteries by 1871 0 — Number of Confederate soldiers buried in those national cemeteries 58 — Number of Confederate ...