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Title: Frank Leslie's scenes and portraits of the Civil War ...
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Leslie, Frank, 1821-1880
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Publisher: New York : Mrs. F. Leslie
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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stitution, JN. ±1.,where he became second lieutenant in March, 1814; was adjutant to Colonel John D. B. Walback, and in August was transferred to the lhird Artillery.In 1819 he was appointed aid-de-camp to General Jacob Brown, then in command of the Northern Military Department, and stationed at Brownsville.At the beginning of the Civil War he took an active part in the formation of the Union Defense Committee, and was its first president. Un the 1 res-idents first call for troops he organized and sent to the field seventeen regiments, and was appointed one of the four major generals to command theNew York State forces. In July, 1861, General Dix was sent to Baltimore to take command of the Department of Maryland, and it was through hisenergetic and judicious measures that the State and the city were prevented from going over to the Confederate cause. In 1863 he was transferred toNew York as commander of the Department of the East, which place he held, until the close of the war. 113
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Cape Girardeau, occupied by the Federal troops under General U. S. Grant, September 8th, 1861

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