Tragedy on the Santa Fe Road
BY Jim Gray
The Emporia News of July 12, 1862, was filled with reports of the war between Union and Confederate forces in Virginia. Gen. McClellan’s forces were repelled from the Rebel Capitol of Richmond to make a stand at a place called Malvern Hill. A dispatch dated July 3, 1862, reported that despite withdrawing from its push to take Richmond the Union Army “had beat the enemy badly.”
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