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Civil War
TENTH REGIMENT INFANTRY
"The command of the party now devolved upon Lieutenant Walter H. Nichols, who seeing there was no possibility of saving the train, retreated with his men in good order to the first stockade this side of Lavergne. Here he was reinforced by about 15 men who were stationed at the stockade. He then marched his men back to the point where the train had been thrown from the track. The rebels had captured the mail and express matter on board, and had set fire to the train together with the engine and tender
American Civil War
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