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Saturday, August 25, 2018

Spring Hill (Tenn.) video: While Rebels slept, Yankees escaped

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On the night of Nov. 29, 1864, the bulk of John Schofield’s Army of the Cumberland slipped past the Confederates’ Army of Tennessee camped in these fields in Spring Hill, Tenn. Follow along with me for a walk at the old Rippavilla Plantation.

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