Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Mitchel” in page 188 of Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3.:
...garden plot attached.
Into these he gathered the refugee families to the aggregate of full five thousand souls, and made the labor of the men regular and useful in some way. When the writer visited Mitchel ville, as the little town was called, in the spring of 1866, it contained between a three and four thousand inhabitants.
The houses and
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