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Earl Van Dorn, a confederate army commander in the Western Theater of the #CivilWar, was shot and killed #OTD in 1863. He was serving as commander of the cavalry corps
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General Henry Warner Slocum was born #OTD in 1827, in Onondaga County, NY, near Syracuse. He finished school at age 16 and was certified to teach, which he did for
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Sergeant Major Milton Murray Holland was born #OTD in 1844, in Carthage, TX. The son of a white slave owner and an enslaved woman named Martha, Holland was sent north
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