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To: central_va
Grant also thought states had a a right to secede.

So do I. So what?

76 posted on 01/24/2014 11:57:15 AM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rockrr

Never knew about this battle before.


78 posted on 01/24/2014 11:59:20 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: rockrr
This is interesting pulling a train by hand.

On the morning of 22 February, as the Union forces were still retreating to Jacksonville, the 54th Massachusetts was ordered to counter-march back to Ten-Mile Station. The locomotive of a train carrying wounded Union soldiers had broken down and the wounded were in danger of capture. When the 54th Massachusetts arrived, the men attached ropes to the engine and cars and manually pulled the train approximately three miles to Camp Finegan, where horses were secured to help pull the train. After that, the train was pulled by both men and horses to Jacksonville for a total distance of ten miles. It took forty-two hours to pull the train that distance.[

79 posted on 01/24/2014 12:02:41 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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