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It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones! -- Marshal Maurice de Saxe |
Marks' Mills, 1864(155 total words in this text)(2099 Reads)  Location: Cleveland County Campaign: Camden Expedition (1864) Date(s): April 25, 1864 Principal Commanders: Lt. Col. Francis Drake [US]; Brig. Gen. James B. Fagan [CS] Forces Engaged: Infantry brigade [US]; two divisions [CS] Estimated Casualties: 1,793 total (US 1,500; CS 293) Description: A Union force escorted 240 wagons from Camden to Pine Bluff to pick up supplies and transport them back to Maj. Gen. Fred Steele?s army. At first the Union escort rebuffed Rebel attempts to halt them. Then the Confederates moved in on the Union rear and front, causing a rout. The Rebels captured most of the men and all of the supply wagons. Thus, Steele gave up all thoughts of uniting with Maj. Gen. Nathaniel Banks on the Red River and realized that he had to save his army. Result(s): Confederate victory |
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Confederate General Joseph Johnston officially surrenders his army to General William T. Sherman at Durham Station, North Carolina.
1865: John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln. 1865: Joseph E. Johnston surrenders the Army of Tennessee to Sherman. 1937: The ancient Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain is bombed by German planes. 1952: Armistice negotiations are resumed. 1971: The U.S. command in Saigon announces that the U.S. force level in Vietnam is 281,400 men, the lowest since July 1966. 1972: President Nixon, despite the ongoing communist offensive, announces that another 20,000 U.S. troops will be withdrawn from Vietnam in May and June, reducing authorized troop strength to 49,000. |
