Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Sparta” in chapter 10, page 122 of Col. J. Stoddard Johnston, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 9.1, Kentucky:
...luding the brigades of McCray and McNair, constituting the third division of General Smith's army.
On the 9th, General Smith, in a letter to General Bragg, says that from Buell's present position Sparta would seem to be one of his natural lines into middle
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