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Meeting with the Yankees

Unauthorized socializing and commerce between the Union troops across the Potomac in Maryland and the 13th’s Rebel ones on the opposite Virginia shore continued after the Leesburg/Ball’s Bluff battles—until the regiment’s second-in-command put a stop to it. Quartermaster clerk William … Continue reading

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