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The actual capture of Col. Streight's larger and better equipped forces was achieved by a clever ruse, when
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in the south, partially as a feint to confuse the scattered
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Confederate Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest, 3 miles east of
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A Compendium of the War of the
Rebellion: Battles, Campaigns, Etc. in Alabama
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This unsuccessful
Northern raid was coordinated with the more famous
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Damaged ammunition while crossing Will's Creek, near
Gadsden (2 May)
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The
Lightning Mule Brigade: Abel Streight's 1863 Raid Into Alabama
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Skirmishes at/near Blount's
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Military operations of the American Civil War in Alabama
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Battles of the Western Theater of the American Civil War
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Brig. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, C.S.A. (1820-1877)
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260:Brig. Gen.
246:Union Army
508:Dyer 1908
314:Vicksburg
220:Day's Gap
814:Category
534:4 August
147:Strength
63:Location
31:Part of
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238:Alabama
68:Alabama
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763:Units
480:Notes
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681:1864
660:1863
624:1861
551:ISBN
536:2020
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