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U.S. Civil War History
U.S. Civil War History
1862 - Union troops under General John Blunt drove Confederates under General John Marmaduke back into the Boston Mountains in northwestern Arkansas. (Battle of Cane Hill, Arkansas) The battle was a prelude to a much larger fight at Prairie Grove, Arkansas, nine days later.
1863 - Confederate reinforcements arrived at Knoxville, Tennessee. Confederate General James Longstreet continued his siege in order to draw Union troops away from Chattanooga. Ultimately, Longstreet retreated back to Virginia.
| "The struggle of today, is not altogether for today--it is for a vast future also." - Abraham Lincoln (December 3, 1861) |
