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Pugh's Illinois Brigade Jackson Charge Echoed in War Tale
The article recounts Colonel Pugh's famed Jackson Mississippi assault of July 12 1863 with the Forty first Illinois Fifty third Illinois and Third Iowa regiments. It notes heavy losses 645 killed or wounded out of about 900 and honors color bearers Sergeant Poundstone and Sergeant Streeter among the wounded or remembered, linking the deed to Petersburg and criticizing leadership decisions while highlighting bravery and memorials.
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Lea
Ilinois
Jickson
Miss
Peterburg
Maria
Goth
Jee
Vicksburg
W. T. Sherman
Grant
Jackson
Joseph E. Johnston
Mississippi War
Lawnman
Thirteenth Army Corp
Pearl River
Mississippi Central Railroad
Ise
C. Pugh
Bri
Twenty
Illinois
Ullinois
Fifty
Third Town Infantry
Shiman
Clinton
Pugh
Lauman
New Orleans Bartiery
Mcbane
Tennessee
Cobb
Kentucky
General Breckinridge
Seth Earl
Fifty-third Illinois
Frank M. Long
Fifty-first Illinois
Forty-first Illinois
Samuel B. Hall
Ashmead
Meb
Sergeant Poundstone
Ottawa
Ill
New Orleans
Bratze Poundstone
Richmond
Memorial Hall
George
H. M. Streever
Argenta
E. O. C. Ord
J. G. Lauman
A. P. Hovey
Indiana
Iowa
Sherman
Johnston
Mins
Dlinois
John H. Nale
C. Earl
Aaron Brown
Rhoades
Twenty-eighth
Lee