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Bragg Takes Command in Mississippi

June 23, 2017 WalterCoffey

June 23, 1862 – General Braxton Bragg announced that he would lead his new army from Tupelo, Mississippi, into eastern Tennessee to join forces with

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Preparing to Attack Island No. 10

April 4, 2017 WalterCoffey

April 4, 1862 – Major General John Pope prepared his Federal Army of the Mississippi to capture strategic Island No. 10 on the Mississippi River

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The Fall of New Madrid

March 13, 2017 WalterCoffey

March 13, 1862 – Confederate defenders abandoned a position on the Mississippi River under artillery bombardment from Major General John Pope’s Army of the Mississippi.

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