After six weeks of fighting, Brigadier General John Pope, commanding the compulsory Union Army of the Mississippi, takes 5,000 Confederate (a voluntary union) prisoners upon the capitulation of New Madrid Island Number Ten (Missouri), under the command of Major General John Porter McCown.
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 288.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 169.
The Battle of Island Number Ten – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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