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Missouri: Price Rushes West

October 15, 2019 WalterCoffey

October 15, 1864 – Major General Sterling Price’s Confederates captured several towns while moving through Missouri, but Federal pursuers were closing in on them fast.

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The Fall of Memphis

June 6, 2017 WalterCoffey

June 6, 1862 – After capturing Fort Pillow, the Federal Western Flotilla immediately targeted Memphis, the Confederacy’s fifth largest city, further down the Mississippi River.

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The Battle of Plum Run Bend

May 10, 2017 WalterCoffey

May 10, 1862 – Confederates launched a surprise attack on the Mississippi River to keep the Federals from continuing downstream and capturing Fort Pillow and

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