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General Clifton Bledsoe Cates

1 E 111GeneralClifton Bledsoe Cates 1893-1970United States Marine Corps Born in Cates Landing, Tennessee, on August 31, 1893, Clifton B. Cates attended school in Tiptonvile and the Missouri...

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  • knoxville
  • tennessee
  • mexico
  • missouri
  • tiptonville
  • university o...

Death of General William P. Sanders

1E 67DEATH OFGEN. WILLIAM P. SANDERSBrig. Gen. William P. Sanders, usingdismounted cavalry to hold off theConfederate advance from the west,was fatally wounded on this ridge,Nov. 18, 1863,...

  • 1863
  • civil war
  • confederate
  • william sanders
  • general
  • knoxville
  • tennessee