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On This Day in Confederate History, July 5.

1861: The Battle of Carthage, MO, took place between the Missouri State Guard, secessionists under Gov. Claiborne Jackson, and the 2nd Brigade Missouri Volunteers, unionists under Col. Franz Sigel. The State Guard outnumbered the Federals by 4,000 to 1,100. It was a victory for the secessionists by they had 200 casualties to 44 for the unionists.

Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan

1863: The Battle of Lebanon, KY, erupts when Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan's Cavalry Brigade attacks the Federal garrison. Morgan had 2,460 men and scored a victory over the 20th Ky. Infantry (Union) under Lt. Col. Charles S. Hanson, who was a brother of Confederate Brig. Gen. Roger Hanson. The Federals suffered 41 casualties, and the Confederate casualties are unknown.

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A History of the 13th Louisiana Infantry

This is the story of one of the most heroic and hardest-fighting regiments in the Confederate Army, the 13th Louisiana Infantry. The men of this regiment were largely from the New Orleans area and fought in such famous battles as Shiloh, Perryville, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga, Atlanta (Campaign), Franklin, and Nashville in the main Confederate Army of the western theater of operations. They served under such great Confederate generals as P.G.T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, Joseph Johnston, and John Bell Hood.

1864: Martial law was declared in all of Kentucky by President Lincoln's Proclamation 113 because of secession sentiment in the state. Lincoln also suspended the Writ of Habeas Corpus.

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