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	Battle History
		Battle of Belmont Nov. 7, 1861 Not engaged.
		Battle of New Madrid Feb. 27, 1862 Repelled the Union advances.
		Battle of Richmond, Ken. Aug. 30, 1862 Not engaged.
	www.angelfire.com /tn3/tenncompanyb/battle_history.htm (159 words)

	Description of The Battle of New Madrid and Island No. 10
		New Madrid was the terminus of the main river road leading to St. Louis, 175 miles distant.
		Alexander P. "Old Straight" Stewart was placed in command at New Madrid, and he immediately ordered the construction of a second fort to be placed at the mouth of St. John Bayou, on the eastern edge of town.
		Added to McCown's task of fortifying the area under such conditions was the news that the Missouri Confederate Legislature was to meet in New Madrid on March 3, and he was expected to protect its deliberations from disruption.
	www.civilwarhome.com /newmadriddescrip.htm (3385 words)

	The New York Times > Travel > A Flowering of Art in Madrid
		Madrid's commuters dread the idea of having less room to drive on the tree-lined Paseo del Prado, but visitors will no longer have to dodge harried drivers in the 10-minute stroll from museum to museum.
		The new restaurant was scheduled to open last week for lunch, with dinner served in July and August; (34-91) 429 2732.
		New exhibit spaces are scheduled to open with shows on Roy Lichtenstein on Friday and Salvador Dalí on June 28.
	www.wesleyan.edu /madrid/tribuna/Flowering_art_Madrid_040620.htm (1698 words)

	Myahudi Monsters Maul Madrid
		The Madrid attack also served to badly frighten the Spanish people in general, and to warn the new incoming Socialist Prime Minister that he has better toe New York's line, or more N.O.S. attacks would be sure to follow.
		One of the biggest illusions of the Madrid operation, lay in convincing you the public that a large crowd of nimble terrorists just hopped on board all four trains as they were 'passing through' Alcala de Henares railway station on the down platform towards Atocha.
		The Madrid bombers were holed up in the densely packed suburb of Leganes Norte, which had to be cleared before police could storm the building, giving time for some suspects to flee.
	vialls.com /myahudi/madrid.html (3293 words)

	Battle Summary: New Madrid/Island No. 10, MO
		Nearby was New Madrid, one of the weak points.
		The force marched overland through swamps, lugging supplies and artillery, reached the New Madrid outskirts on March 3, and laid siege to the city.
		On the 14th, Pope’s army discovered that New Madrid was deserted and moved in to occupy it.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/abpp/battles/mo012.htm (358 words)

	Battle History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Battle of Belmont November 7, 1861 Not Engaged Battle of New Madrid February 27, 1862 Repelled the Union Forces Battle of Shiloh April 6, 1862 Responsible for enfilading fire which routed General Prentiss’ Division and captured 7 cannons.
		Battle of Perryville October 8, 1862 Official records unclear Battle of Richmond, KY August 30, 1862 Not Engaged Stone’s River Campaign December 26,1862- Distinguished itself on January 5, 1863 January 3,1863, against Union infantry.
		Battle of Chickamauga September 19, 1863- Took heavy casualties September 20, 1863 in men and horses.
	www.angelfire.com /tn3/bankheadsbattery/battlehistory.html (140 words)

	Wilson, Madrid debate doesn't sway voters : Election : Albuquerque Tribune (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Madrid said immigrants living in the country should be allowed to apply for citizenship.
		Madrid: "You have to be careful about taking large sums of money from lobbyists, but even if you do, it is only to give them access, to let you know about what their concerns are.
		Madrid also said the marriage penalty should not stay on the books and denounced Wilson for not extending tax cuts to the middle class.
	abqtrib.com /news/2006/oct/25/wilson-madrid-debate-doesnt-sway-voters (1368 words)

	Madrid
		Madrid had few industries but both the Union General de Trabajadores (UGT) and the National Confederation of Trabajo (CNT) were active in the city.
		On the outbreak of the war Madrid was under the control of the Popular Front government.
		A third reason advanced by many, in explanation of Franco's obvious reluctance to convert Madrid into a city of ruins, was that most of the buildings, the elegant palaces and apartment houses that made the Spanish capital one of the most beautiful in the world, belonged to the men who were financing his campaign.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /SPmadrid.htm (4944 words)

	The American Civil War (1860-1865)
		The "Battle Flag" of the Confederacy is square, of various sizes for the different branches of the service: 48 inches square for the infantry, 36 inches for the artillery, and 30 inches for the cavalry.
		It was used in battle from November 1861 to the fall of the Confederacy.
		The Battle of Philippi became the first land battle of the Civil War involving organized troops and the Union's use of the railroad to deploy troops to the area, to rapidly engage enemy troops, was likely the first such use in the world history of warfare.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwar.html (17243 words)

	NewMadridMO.com - Historic New Madrid, MO (Encyclopedia Britannica) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The town was initiated in 1789 by an American Revolutionary War veteran, George Morgan, who had received a land grant from Spain, but it did not begin to flourish in farming and trade until after the purchase of the Territory of Louisiana by the United States in 1803.
		New Madrid's growth was slowed by violent earthquakes in 1811-12, as well as floods and shifting of the river's course, which caused several removals of the city to different sites.
		New Madrid's economic mainstay is diversified agriculture (cotton, soybeans, corn [maize], grain sorghum, and livestock).
	www.newmadridmo.com /geninfo/eb (166 words)

	Battle of Memphis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The First Battle of Memphis was a naval battle fought on the Mississippi River on June 6, 1862, during the American Civil War.
		The battle lasted one and a half hours and was watched by the civilian population from the Chickasaw Bluffs.
		The battle ended with Union commanders landing at the city docks and taking control of Memphis, giving the Union army a port for moving supplies down the river.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Memphis (398 words)

	The New Yorker: PRINTABLES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		New groups, such as the bombers in Madrid, were acting in the name of Al Qaeda, and although they may well have had the blessings of its leaders, they did not have the training, resources, or international contacts that had bolstered the previous generation of terrorists.
		An editor of Sawt al-Jihad, Issa bin Saad al-Oshan, died in a gun battle with Saudi police on July 21st, during a raid on a villa in Riyadh, where the head of Paul M. Johnson, Jr., the American hostage, was discovered in the freezer.
		On July 21st, immediately after the Philippine hostage was freed, new warnings appeared on the Internet, from a body called the Tawhid Islamic Group, promising terror attacks against Poland and Bulgaria unless they withdrew their troops from Iraq.
	www.newyorker.com /printable/?fact/040802fa_fact (9950 words)

	Madrid : Introduction \| Frommers.com
		Madrid was never really a quiet, early-to-bed city, whatever people may tell you.
		Formerly renowned as being dusty and a bit short on parks, Madrid is now officially one of the "greenest" cities in Europe with verdant areas springing up every year thanks to an ecology-conscious town hall.
		Further aid in its battle against urban pollution comes from the trees and grasslands of the huge Casa del Campo to the west and by the regular flow of pure mountain air breezing in from the Guadarramas 97km (60 miles) away.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/madrid/0056010001.html (727 words)

	Mississippi Journal
		The exhibit then spent a good deal of time on the civil war "Battle of New Madrid and Island #10." The last exhibit in the museum was a section on earthquake preparedness and the explanation as to why New Madrid was so much better off than your normal small river town.
		The New Madrid fault line runs through the Mississippi Valley and produced some of the strongest known earthquakes in North America in the early 1800s.
		In the New Madrid, the impact appeared to have been for the better as the town suddenly became host to hundreds of news personal and received national attention.
	cogsci.ucsd.edu /~dgroppe/week3.html (4298 words)

	New Mexico Aspartame Battle Depends On Attorney General's Opinion
		Both the New Mexico Board of Pharmacy and the Environmental Improvement Board have petitions before them to amend the Administrative Code with a new chapter which bans neurotoxic additives, to medications and to foods.
		Rather than wait till such opinion is delivered, however, I encourage the reader to write to the Honorable Patricia Madrid, and to her Deputy, the Honorable Stuart Bluestone, the Bataan Building, Santa Fe, New Mexico 87501, and make your views known.
		The Aspartame/formaldehyde and the Thimerosal/mercury in vaccines are tied to together in these considerations before the two New Mexico Boards, because they are both proven neurotoxins with deadly neurodegenerative effects, and this is the subject of the additional chapter for the Administrative Code.
	www.rense.com /general69/newm.htm (787 words)

	New Madrid County, Missouri - Visit Missouri's River Heritage Region
		New Madrid, situated on the Mississippi River, was shaken in the early 1800's by one of history's most violent earthquakes.
		Earthquake displays and local history exhibits on the Mississippian Indians, and the Civil War Battle of Island No. 10 can be seen at the New Madrid Historical Museum.
		While in New Madrid, be sure to visit the antebellum Hunter-Dawson Home State Historic Site, the Higgerson School Historic Site, and walk on a 120 foot long Mississippi River Observation Deck.
	www.visitsemo.com /newmadrid.html (89 words)

	GRAND THEFT COUNTRY \| 9/11 - Towers 1 & 2: 2005 Madrid Fire
		On February 13th of 2005, exactly 30 years after the first WTC fire, the world witnessed the Windsor Building -a 32-story steel skyscraper- burn for nearly 3 days in Madrid, Spain without collapse.
		According to Javier Sanz, who is the equivalent of Fire Chief in Madrid, at its peak the inferno's temperatures reached 800ºC (1,472ºF).
		Flames shot up the sides of the building from the 21st floor on up, engulfing the entire skyscraper in virtually 100 feet of near-white hot flames.
	www.grandtheftcountry.com /facts/911/towers/madrid.html (126 words)

	7:21 pm: Everyone awaits Wilson-Madrid results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		State Attorney General Patricia Madrid smiles at a campaign worker as she signs in to vote at her precinct in Albuquerque, N.M., Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2006.
		Madrid is the Democratic candidate challenging Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., in the 1st Congressional District race.
		On Tuesday afternoon, before the battle for Albuquerque’s Northeast Heights ground inevitably to a halt, interviews indicated that moderate voters were breaking both ways.
	www.santafenewmexican.com /news/51779.html (926 words)

	The Third Field Artillery Battalion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Their deeds and the battles in which they fought do not belong to us alone—they are part of the history of the United States.
		During the latter battle, all guns were captured during a displacement.
		The next day the “Justicia” was attacked and sunk after eight hours battle with fourteen subs at the place our convoy would have been had the course not been changed.
	www.mindspring.com /~sgasque/army/3rdFABat.htm (6006 words)

	New Madrid County, Missouri - River Heritage Region of Missouri Tourism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The New Madrid Oxbow is a 20 mile horseshoe bend and is one of the many natural features associated with the New Madrid Earthquake.
		To learn more about the New Madrid Earthquakes, the Civil War, the Mississippian Indians and how the river shaped community life for the last 200 years, view the interpretive exhibits at the New Madrid Historical Museum, open year round.
		On Sunday, a special cruise from New Madrid to Caruthersville is scheduled.
	www.rosecity.net /rhr/newmadrid.html (635 words)

	Missouri Civil War Battle New Madrid American Civil War
		With the surrender of Forts Henry and Donelson, Tennessee, and the evacuation of Columbus, Kentucky, General P.G.T. Beauregard, commander of the Confederate Army of the Mississippi, chose Island No. 10, about 60 river miles below Columbus, to be the strongpoint for defending the Mississippi River.
		Brigadier General John Pope, commander of the Union Army of the Mississippi, set out from Commerce, Missouri, to attack New Madrid, on February 28.
		USS Carondelet, a 512-ton Cairo class ironclad river gunboat, was built at Saint Louis, Missouri, for the U.S. Army's Western Gunboat Flotilla.
	americancivilwar.com /statepic/mo/mo012.html (689 words)

	Tobias V Sivill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Battle of Atlanta July 22, and seige of Savannah, Ga. to Sept 22, With Sherman in his famous March to the Sea, and seige of Savannah, Ga. Dec.
		At battle of Bentonville N.C. 19 to 21 March 1865.
		The most important event was the caoture of Island No. 10 and the Battle of Corinth, Miss., other important battles were but those to precidence over all other in his experience.
	www.champaign.lib.oh.us /warsketch/sivill158.htm (333 words)

	Joseph S. Reynolds Papers Inventory (#5060-z) This collection is currently in the Preservation Department and not ...
		They chronicle the movements of the 64th Illinois Infantry Regiment and the Yates Sharpshooters from the battle of New Madrid, Mo., to camps and battles in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina.
		Joseph Smith Reynolds was born in New Lenox, Ill., on 3 December 1839.
		With the 64th Illinois Infantry Regiment and the Yates Sharpshooters, he fought in 17 Civil War battles, was wounded three times, and took part in Sherman's March to the Sea.
	www.lib.unc.edu /mss/inv/htm/05060.html (874 words)

	The Battle of New Madrid
		On a peninsula 10 miles long by 3 miles wide, the defenses consisted of a 2-regiment redoubt at New Madrid, and land batteries on a floating battery at Island No. 10.
		By March 2nd, his advance pickets arrived at New Madrid and the following day the remainder of the Army of the Mississippi arrived on the edge of town, having marched the 50 miles of Missouri springtime mud in 3 days.
		The large guns left in the forts were placed back into service, and 3 new batteries were constructed on the Missouri side of the river; 2 between Point Pleasant and New Madrid, and another a few more miles south at Riddle's Point, opposite Tiptonville.
	www.mycivilwar.com /battles/620303.htm (1265 words)

	New Madrid Historical Museum
		Street, the New Madrid Historical Museum reflects the history of this river town from the Mississippian period up through the early 20th century.
		The seismograph on the premises gives evidence of continuing activity along the New Madrid fault.
		Letters, clothing, equipment and weaponry of the period are all on display, much of it donated by local residents with family connections to the pieces.
	www.newmadridmuseum.com (224 words)

	Robert Cameron 1828-1894 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Cameron re-entered the service in late July as the lieutenant colonel of Solomon Meredith's 19th Indiana Infantry and was promoted to the command of the 34th Indiana in February 1862.
		His regiment saw action at the battle of New Madrid and Island Number 10, Missouri, and took part in the Vicksburg, Mississippi, campaign.
		In August 1863 he was promoted to brigadier general and given command of a brigade in the XIII Corps.
	www.indianainthecivilwar.com /hoosier/cameron.htm (326 words)

	The Turner Brigade: Joseph L. Follet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		That Lieutenant Follet in the pursuit of these missions overcame all dangers and obstacles is evidence of his daring bravery and great presence of mind.
		He was wounded at the battle of New Madrid, Mo., March 2, 1862, and at Farmington, Miss., May 9, 1862, yet, as stated before, continued in active service.
		He received his Medal of Honor for his intrepidity and fine soldierly qualities throughout his military career and was honored by General Sheridan by special mention in several reports of important battles and in the general's personal memoirs.
	home.earthlink.net /~turnerbrigade/follet.htm (370 words)

	Civil War Timeline / Chronology for February 28
		New York passes a bill requiring state banks to pay debt in United States notes or specie (hard currency).
		North Carolina voters reject the call for a secessionist convention by 651 votes.
		After withdrawing from New Madrid Confederates control Island No. 10, blocking shipping on the Mississippi.
	blueandgraytrail.com /date/February_28 (159 words)

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