Pictorial History of the Civil War in the United States of America, Volume 2G. S. Lester, 1878 - United States |
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... pushed on to Sarcoxie , a post - village in Jackson County , where he arrived to- ward the evening of the 28th , and learned that General Price , with about nine hundred troops , was encamped at Pool's Prairie , a few miles north of ...
... pushed on to Sarcoxie , a post - village in Jackson County , where he arrived to- ward the evening of the 28th , and learned that General Price , with about nine hundred troops , was encamped at Pool's Prairie , a few miles north of ...
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... pushed forward to gain the ferry on the Osage , twenty - two miles ahead . Near that point , in the midst of a dense forest , the main army reached the river in the afternoon of the 9th , when they were stirred by intense excitement ...
... pushed forward to gain the ferry on the Osage , twenty - two miles ahead . Near that point , in the midst of a dense forest , the main army reached the river in the afternoon of the 9th , when they were stirred by intense excitement ...
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... pushed forward , unmindful of the intense heat , the stifling dust , and the lack of water ; and on the night of the 10th the wearied army encamped at Big Spring , a mile and a half from Wilson's Creek , and about ten and a half miles ...
... pushed forward , unmindful of the intense heat , the stifling dust , and the lack of water ; and on the night of the 10th the wearied army encamped at Big Spring , a mile and a half from Wilson's Creek , and about ten and a half miles ...
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... pushed on with vigor when the Confederate camp pickets were driven in . The mounted Home Guards and Captain Plummer's battal- ion were thrown across Wilson's Creek , near a sharp bend , and moved on a line with the advance of the main ...
... pushed on with vigor when the Confederate camp pickets were driven in . The mounted Home Guards and Captain Plummer's battal- ion were thrown across Wilson's Creek , near a sharp bend , and moved on a line with the advance of the main ...
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... pushed forward , Major Osterhaus's battalion being on the extreme right , his own right resting on the side of an abrupt ravine . A line of battle was immediately formed on the hill , with the Missouri troops in front , the Kansas ...
... pushed forward , Major Osterhaus's battalion being on the extreme right , his own right resting on the side of an abrupt ravine . A line of battle was immediately formed on the hill , with the Missouri troops in front , the Kansas ...
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