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Title: Frank Leslie's scenes and portraits of the Civil War ...
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880
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Publisher: New York : Mrs. F. Leslie
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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LIEUTENANT TILLOTSONS NAVAL BATTERY OP BOAT HOWITZERS AT THE BATTLE OF NEW BERNE, N. C.
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A CONFEDERATE TREED —CAPTURE OF LIEUTENANT H. J. SEGAL. OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY, NEAR FALLS CHURCH. On Friday, the 4th of October, 1861, a scouting party of eighteen men, under Lieutenant Colonel Winslow and Captain Shattuck, of the Thirty-seventh Regiment, New York Volunteers, were out in the vicinity of Falls Church, Vn, As they were proceeding cautiously through a dense woodthey heard the tramp of horses and the jingle of sabre scabbards. The lieutenant colonel and the captain, ordering their men to halt, went to reconnoitre.,,,! a X V) )Un0 0ne of i)iem ca,me uPon un °Pen sPace> where he saw four Confederates seated under a large chestnut tree, engaged in eating chestnuts.1 he^Confederates saw him, and sprang upon their horses. The officer cried, in a loud voice, Charge! By the time the scouting party had got r saw a horse tied to a tree byfles pointed at his breast 600U up the four gallant horsemen were beyond pursuit. Our men were about gathering up the spoils of victory, w

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