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Title: History of the First Regiment Minnesota Volunteer Infantry, 1861-1864 (electronic resource): with maps and illustrations
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Holcombe, R. I. (Return Ira), 1845-1916 Searles, Jasper Newton, 1840- Taylor, Mathew F Colvill Commission (Minn.)
Subjects: United States. Army. Minnesota Infantry Regiment, 1st (1861-1864)
Publisher: Stillwater, Minn. : Easton & Masterman, printers
Contributing Library: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Emory University, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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of the vilest abuse of President Lincoln. He hasdone more harm than any other man since the Crea-tion. He has, with a fiendish malignity unsurpassedby savage or barbarian, brought a calamity upon ahappy country and a mighty people, amounting touniversal destruction. Talk of Arnold or Judas;why, they were white men compared to thisscoundrel. There were advertisements of runaway slaves.A girl who calls herself Mary Randolph and whowas a bright mulatto, about 18 years old, tall andslender, hair quite straight, teeth a little decayed infront, no mark save a mole near the right eye, hadrun away, taking with her a boy of 15 years, herbrother, Frederick Randolph, also a bright mulatto,with a low forehead, hair growing closely around it;is not very intelligent and stammers slightly Areward of $50 each was offered for their return, iftaken in Clarke County, or what the law allowsif taken outside. Another slave, James Jolr son, 20 years old, 5feet 4 inches high, of copper color, had also run 90
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IIIMIJ. GEN. ALFRED HIUjV,The Third Inliiiicl of the Regiment. THE SHENANDOAH VALLEY CAMPAIGN away and the same reward as for the Eandolphswas offered for his return. John G. Morris, of Win-chester, wanted to purchase any number ofnegroes, for which he will pay the highest marketprice in cash that the market will justify Theseads were strange and suggestive literature to theMinnesota boys. March 13, the regiment set out, with the Division,for Winchester, 10 miles Avest of Berryville. Stone-wall Jackson was reported to be still at Winchesterready for a fight, and the First Regiment wanted tobalance the account it had against him for Bull Run.But, when within two miles of Winchester, it waslearned that Jackson had retreated on the night ofthe 11th and was noAv miles away to the southward,in Page County, and in almost inaccessible positionsin the spurs and ranges of the Blue Ridge Moun-tains. The forenoon of the 11th he had fought withBanks advance, on the Martinsburg road, six milesout

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