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Ohio Company of Associates

ON THIS SITE The United States in concress assembled on the 13th day of July in the year of our Lord 1787 and of their sovereignty and independece the twelfth, enacted an ordinance for the government of the territory northwest of the river Ohio, by which it was dedicated forever to freedom. Under another ordinance passed here by the same body on the 27th day of the same month, Manasseh...

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The Evacuation of Gordon

On Nov. 20, 1864, Maj. Gen. H. C. Wayne, Adjutant General of Georgia, found that telegraphic communications with Macon had been cut by the Right Wing of Gen. Sherman´s Army [USA], which had left...

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Toombsboro

On Nov. 22, 1864, the Left Wing (15th and 17th Corps. Maj. Gen. O. O. Howard, USA) of General Sherman´s army [Federal], which had left Atlanta on Nov. 15th on its destructive March to the...

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