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Talladega, Alabama, on the 23d of April, 1865, and was supported by the regiment and brigade, scattering the entire
Confederate force and capturing the artillery, and many prisoners. This was fourteen days after the surrender at Appomattox, and therefore quite late enough after a cessation of hostilities. The next day the country was filled with small parties returning home—a sadly broken down people.
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General B.J. Hill (May 1865): "I received authority from the
Secretary of War of the Confederate States, approved by the House of Representatives and Senate, to raise a new brigade in North Alabama and North Georgia of mounted men. I have made my headquarters at Blue Mountain and Jacksonville, Ala.,
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Numerous battles have been written up as "the last fight of the rebellion." Without disputing in regard to the matter it is a fact, not generally known, that a battalion (the saber battalion) of the Second
Michigan cavalry, under brevet Major Whittemore, charged the force under General Hill, near
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Prisoners of War captured by 1st Division Cavalry Corps, Military Division of the Mississippi" (Register No. 63) at Munford, Ala., April 23, 1865, National Archives' Compiled Service Records of Confederate
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for the past three months, and have succeeded in organizing two small regiments, about one-half of whom were killed, captured, or deserted during the two late raids of
Generals Wilson and Croxton through Alabama."
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Michigan Cavalry (the advance regiment of the brigade) lost two men killed, five missing and two captured in the charge through Munford. In rearguard actions, the 8th Iowa Cavalry lost two men
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had two cannons which fired several rounds before they were overrun. The Union troops won the brief battle. Parsons was appointed provisional governor of
Alabama in June after the war's end.
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Wilson's
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Monument - The last Confederate soldier killed east of the Mississippi.
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Roster and Record of Iowa Soldiers in the War of the Rebellion
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558:"Burying history, a bus burns and a bridge into the past"
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Battles of the Western Theater of the American Civil War
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