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On July 25, 1863, Gen. John H. Morgan, in command of Confederate troops, passed here and proceeded northward via Richmond while being pursued by Gen. James M. Shackelford, commanding the 14th Ill. Cav., First Ky. Cav., 9th Mich. Cav., 11th Mich. Bat'y, 86th Ohio Mounted Inf., 2d Tenn. Mounted Inf., and Steubenville Militia. In an engagement here, militiaman Henry L. Parks was wounded and died July 27, 1863, and Miss Margaret D. Daugherty, in Thomas Maxwell's house, was severely wounded.
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Wintersville, Ohio · United States
