Battle of Newton's Station
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title:
Battle of Newton's Station
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The Battle of Newton's Station was an engagement on April 24, 1863, in Newton's Station, Mississippi, during the famous Grierson's Raid of the American Civil War (1861-1865). Union Army cavalry raiders of 1,700 troopers in a brigade of three mounted regiments under the command of Col. Benjamin Grierson (1826-1911), in an effort to disrupt Confederate States Army and civilian east-west communications and the railway line between Vicksburg and the state capital of Jackson further to the east. They
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Battle of the American Civil War
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Newton%27s_Station
date created:
2007-04-19T22:36:57Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T15:44:23Z
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