Monday, July 1, 2013

December 20, 1862---The Rebels burn Holly Springs MS



DECEMBER 20, 1862:        

General Earl Van Dorn C.S.A. attacks and burns Holly Springs, Mississippi, General Grant’s forward supply depot and sometime Headquarters. Van Dorn takes 1,500 prisoners and destroys $1,500,000.00 in war materiel.


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