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Capture Of Union City

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
April
Year
1862
Copyright
Public Domain
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Chicago, April 1. A special to tho Jounia', (rom C'iiro, says : "Col. TCuford, yesterduy, neeompar.red by the Twi'nty-suvcnth and Forlh KCL'.onij Iüincis, and part cf thtí FiJIteenth Wlwoníin froin uear laland No. 10, with a dctnchmcut of cavolry and arti'lory frorn Hickman, under Col. Hcg, mude a dwoeot upon Union City. Aí'tor a furced march of thirty ínjles, th. y ful) upon the rebel encanipmont at 7 o'clock in the raoroÍDg and disperscd th(; iMitire furce stationed thero, under Major Kin, both cavalry and inlantry. Tiiey fled n ovcry direction. Several of the encmy wero killed and a nuinber taken pcinoner. " A largo amount oí spntha wcro eapturéd. oo huinlieil and fifty hortes, Oommissaryand Quartermcsters'atores, &c. Our loss was ono man, killed frían an explosión n a buriiing tent. The rebel forcé numl.ered 700 inlantry, add between 700 and 800 cavalry."

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Old News
Michigan Argus