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| | This Week in the Civil War August 30,1863 |
 | | The State of Texas, which has hitherto been almost entirely free from the presence of the enemy, is now threatened with invasion by four columns-one from the Indian Territory, one from Arkansas, and two from Louisiana---and the presence of every man capable of bearing arms is needed in the field. |
 | | I at once set out from this post..., and crossed the Rio Grande, and went to the point where the Guerrero soldiers and banditti had their skirmish, and, finding nobody there, took the trail of Zapata's party, and followed it to within a short distance of Mier, when..., I found the camp of the banditti. |
 | | I directed the non-commissioned officers...to select the leaders of the banditti, all of whom were known to them, and without delay attack the scoundrels. |
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