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English: "The Fremont Body-Guard - The First Charge of a Detachment of 150 of Fremont's Body-Guard, Under Major Zagonyi, at Springfield, Missouri, on the Rebel Garrison, 2,000 Strong October 25." Originally from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Nov. 23, 1861, page12.

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Title: The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880 Mottelay, Paul Fleury, b. 1841, ed Campbell-Copeland, T. (Thomas), ed Beath, Robert B. (Robert Burns), 1839-1914 Vandervoort, Paul. History of the Grand Army of the Republic Avery, I. W. (Isaac Wheeler), 1837-1897. History of the Confederate Veterans' Association Davis, A. P. History of the Sons of Veterans Merrill, Frank P. History of the Sons of Veterans
Subjects: United States. Army United States. Navy Confederate States of America. Army Confederate States of America. Navy Grand Army of the Republic United Confederate Veterans Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Publisher: New York Atlanta : Stanley Bradley Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: State of Indiana through the Indiana State Library

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JAMfiB UUEKdT MABON JOHN 8L1DEU, 150 THE SOLDIER IN OUR CIVIL IIA R.
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THE SOLDIER IN OUR CIVIL WAR. 157 UiDKATlOJtfS CF FREMO-NlW AOSSOUKL As boon as General Fremont hadjucceedcd in re-establishing orderin tho Department of the West,providing fur tin: recruiting of hisforces and for tho defense of theUpper Mississippi as well as anoffensive movement against theConfederated below Cairn, he seizedthe Sab-Treasury in St. Louis, andyet about fortifying tho latter city. Alter providing for the securityof St. Louis, From nt turned hisattention to tho si ongtlitming oftho City of Cairo, which, from itssituation at tho confluence of theOhio and tho Mississippi rivers,offered, in conjunction with BirdsPoint, great strategic advantages. General Lyon hud already ordorcdits occupation on tho 28th of May,1801, by Colonel Suliuttnors FourthRegiment of St. Louis Volunteers,and, Liter on, fortified camps hadbeen established there under tbocommand of General li. M. Prentiss,which, with those at Birds Point,on the opposite side of the river,hold at lie time as many as si

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