. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . 3H1P ISLAND.— UNITED STATES BTBAUfiB U133IS3IPP1 E STEAilRR. THE SOLDIER IN OUR CIVIL THE SOLDIER fN OUR CIVIL WAR. 21? ■iHE BATTLE OF PEESTONBUHli. Tnp, year 18fi2 opened with active military opei-it ions in Eastern Kentucky, which latter was abouttlii; only field in which anything of moment trans-pired durin
. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . 3H1P ISLAND.— UNITED STATES BTBAUfiB U133IS3IPP1 E STEAilRR. THE SOLDIER IN OUR CIVIL THE SOLDIER fN OUR CIVIL WAR. 21? ■iHE BATTLE OF PEESTONBUHli. Tnp, year 18fi2 opened with active military opei-it ions in Eastern Kentucky, which latter was abouttlii; only field in which anything of moment trans-pired during the entire month of January. The first battle fought in tlie new year took placelit Prcstonbnrg, a town situated on the west fork oftho Pig .Sandy Itivcr, This Confederate General Humphrey Marshallhud, early in the year, entrenclieii Ids force atPaint ville, in Johnson County, for tho purpose ofinterfering with the irovomonts of General DonCarlos Uuoll, one of wlnnc divisions, under Cien-onil Qeorgo Q. Thomas, was advancing toward llioCumberland Iiiver. Colonel James A. Garfield, who had been orderedto dislodge Mara]]all, had, on the 7th of January,broken up hi* camp on Middle Creek,J-rv ami with the Fourteenth Kentuckyand tho Forty-second Ohio Infantry Rcgimcnta,besides 300 of tho Second Virginia Cavalry, hadmarched upon lnintville, only to litid that Marshal
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