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| | YAZOO CITY, MISSISSIPPI - March 5, 1864 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | The Union troops were collected in two redoubts, commanded respectedly by Maj. McKee, with the 11th Ill. infantry, and Lieut.-Col. Peebles, with part of the 8th La. Colored infantry, and in the city, where Col. James H. Coates, leader of the expedition, was in command. |
 | | Colored cavalry at that point could reach their destination Richardson's whole command was in the city, between McKee and Coates' headquarters. |
 | | The Federal loss in the expedition, which was a part of the Meridian campaign, was 31 killed, 121 wounded and 31 captured or missing, the larger part of whom fell at Yazoo City. |
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