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tj General Warner.i i}(\ ; General George Wagner was in tlio rs ! eitv yesterday. He will report to SherI • • • * ^ 9 , wman in a short time. Having been in :5H j the service for four years—service, too, j id i of the severest and most arduous kind jes11nosidlie■*s j •—lie is now spending a few days with e- i his family. We regret to hear that Mrs General Wagner is in very poor sJ health.Of all the officers that Indiana has of! sent into the -field, none have done e J more to sustain her credit than Gen-e leral Wagner. There is no denying the le j fact that he has been well tried—that n j he has gained promotion by dint of haul fighting and real merit. As he has risen in rank his capacity has developed itself, until he now ranks among J the fighting, earnest Generals of the i army as one of the very best. The j recent battle of Franklin drew fourth | conspicuously his prominent traits and showed his admirable fitness for com inand. His division stood the brunt of that battle, and although but one fifth of the army, lost two thirds of the whole number-of-killed, wounded and prisoners It took at one time over 'c* | six hundred prisoners.—Laf Jour 20 inWiVIll1CLsinWi•hA.8Uoi*t and Swevfv;The rules of Libby Prison allow butAxr Ini^o t.hn rtf Oil I* SOldicrSAs i
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Williamsport Warren Republican
Williamsport, Indiana, US
Thu, Dec 22, 1864
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