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Title: Soldiers and citizens' album of biographical record (of Wisconsin) containing personal sketches of army men and citizens prominent in loyalty to the Union. Also a chronological and statistical history of the civil war and a history of the Grand Army of the Republic; with portraits of soldiers and prominent citizens
Year: 1890 (1890s)
Authors: Brown, M. A. W., Mrs., ed Brown, H. O. (Hiram O.), ed
Subjects: Grand Army of the Republic. Dept. of Wisconsin
Publisher: Chicago, Grand Army Publishing Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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,70 wounded; rebel loss, 100 killed andwounded.—Skirmishes at Danville, ^a., andWindsor and Cumberland Gap,- Tenn. Jan. 30.—Operations in the vicinity of Pe-tersburg, \a.—(Kit Carson had an encounterwith the Indians at Canon de Chelly.) Jan. 31.—.\ctions at Chuckatuck, Va., Dal-ton, Ga., and Ringgold, Ga. Jan. 30.—Federal supply train guarded byColonel Snyder, captured near Petersburg, \\.Va., and 80 Union soldiers were killed andwounded.—General Rosser (confederate) madea successful raid into Harding County, Xa., inthe Valley of the Shenandoah, capturing storesand 270 prisoners. Feb. 1.—In an encounter at Smithfield, Va.,90 Union soldiers were captured.—In the sev-eral actions at Bachelor Creek, Newport Bar-racks and New Berne, N. C, the Union troojislost 16 killed, 50 wounded and 280 missing;the rebels lost five killed and 30 wounded ;they covered a period of two days.—At A\al-dron. Ark., the 2d Kansas Cavalry were en-gaged in a skirmish, and at New Creek Valley, I
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GEN. WlNflELD S. HANCOCK. « 1864—FEB. 3—FEB. 9—1864. 89 W. Va., an infantry regiment had an encoun-ter with rebels.—On the same day an expedi-tion started up tlie Yazoo River, in Mississippi,including colored troops (cavalry and infantry),the lltli Illinois Infantry, and a portion ofAdmiral Porters fleet; the expedition lasteduntil March 8th. Fki!. 3.—Skirmishes at Pattersons, Spring-tield, W. Va., and North Branch, Belton, Miss.,Saltpetre Cave, Va., Lebanon, Ala., LiverpoolHeights, Miss., (Yazoo expedition).—The Merid-ian expedition, under General Sherman. Thepurpose of this movement was to destroy pub-lic property in Mississippi, and to disperse aforce of rebels collecting to recapture Vicks-burg. On this day an advance was made toJackson and from there to Meridian, the forcemeanwhile devastating the country. An ex-pected cavalry reinforcement failing to joinhim there, Sherman fell back to Canton, fol-lowed by hundreds of Union refugees and ne-groes. Large organizations

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