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2_Retired
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Oct 20, 2013

CG suggestions for June trip - Civil War sites in the west

DH and I are planning a trip to cover the "western theater" of the Civil War in June. We'll start in Myrtle Beach (home base) and plan to first stop in Asheville, NC (because we love the area!) up t...
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kscaddo
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Nov 05, 2013
Well, here in Texas, at Sabine Pass, Dick Dowling and 48 drunken Irishmen defeated 5000 of the Yankee navy! Not much there now, just a statue and plaque. And outside Tyler is the remains of the largest POW camp west of the Mississippi (after the battle at Mansfield, La.).

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