Saturday, March 14, 2009

A Well Earned Promotion

WASHINGTON, April 15. – Brigadier General Mitchell was nominated to-day for Major General on the recommendation of the secretary of War, for gallant service in the capture of Huntsville, Alabama, Decatur and Stevenson’s Junction.

– Published in the Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, April 19, 1862, p. 3

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