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How a Private Earned the Medal of Honor by Capturing an Enemy General

From the Battle of Mine Creek by Samuel Reader. The Battle of Gettysburg may have been the turning point of the Civil War, but no one told the Confederates that, especially in the West. In August 1864, Confederate Maj. Gen. Sterling Price received an order to take the fight to the North, capture St. Louis and make Abraham Lincoln a one-term president. The resulting offensive was one of the largest mounted cavalry attacks of the war, and it cost the Confederacy dearly. One Union soldier, a 20-year-old private from Iowa, earned the Medal of Honor for compounding the South s failure. A cutting from the 1897 book The Story of American Heroism depicts a wounded Dunlavy taking Gen. Marmaduke s weapon, apparently just by virtue of proximity.

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The Underground Railroad - Gallia and Meigs counties, Part 1

The Underground Railroad - Gallia and Meigs counties, Part 1
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The Underground Railroad - Gallia and Meigs counties, Part 1 - Gallipolis Daily Tribune

By Lorna Hart - Special to OVP OHIO VALLEY The Underground Railroad reached its peak in the 1850’s, and has become synonymous with the battle to end slavery. This vast network helped runaway slaves to escape to the north, and often onto Canada. It was made up of a diverse group of people, the majority of whom were free blacks. Along with their white supporters, the Underground Railroad is estimated to have helped 100,000 slaves between 1810 and 1850. Considering that at the end of the Civil War there were approximately 3.7 million freed slaves, the percentage of fugitives was small. But the idea that one could escape their captors and find support among abolitionists in the north fueled the movement to end slavery in every state in the United States.

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