Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Colonel LaGrange” in chapter 18, page 382 of Joseph T. Derry , A. M. , Author of School History of the United States; Story of the Confederate War, etc., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 6, Georgia:
...ut 10,000 men, and after defeating and capturing a large part of what was left of General Forrest's cavalry at Selma, entered Georgia.
Upton's division marched through Tuskegee toward Columbia, and Colonel LaGrange , with three regiments, advanced on West Point by way of Opelika.
Colonel LaGrange found a garrison of 265 devoted Confederates under Gen. Robert C. Tyler in possession of a
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