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Tennessee Veterans Going Home or Death on the Sultana
Tennessee Veterans were going home in April of 1865. Most of these Union troops had been prisoner’s of war in Andersonville, Georgia and Cahaba, Alabama. These veterans gathered at Vicksburg to embark on a steamboat, for the journey to Cairo, … Continue reading
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