Month: December 2024

They plugged the hole, fired a volley, and then advanced with the rest of Breckinridge’s line through mud that sucked the footwear from their ft. On May 14, Sigel’s forces encountered a Confederate cavalry screen—the human equivalent of radar—about eight miles north of New Market, Virginia. As Sigel pressed south into the town, the Rebel horsemen gave floor before him, remaining simply out of reach whereas sending estimates of the Union forces to Breckinridge.

Burr later wrote that Mrs. Prevost possessed “the truest coronary heart, the ripest intellect, and…
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