Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Brigadier-General Grant” in page 134 of John G. Nicolay, The Outbreak of Rebellion:
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The movement did not pass unobserved; the Union commander at Cairo had, with equal vigilance, been studying the possibilities of the river system in his neighborhood.
On the following day, Brigadier-General Grant proceeded, with two gunboats and an infantry force, to take possession of the town of Paducah, at the confluence of the
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