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pickets to prisoners

From a Seneca County, New York newspaper in December 1863: Taken Prisoners. Capt. Meade, of the 111th Regiment, with twenty-nine of his men, were taken prisoners during the recent retreat of Gen. Meade. They were sent out as pickets, and … Continue reading

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