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Battle of Moscow - The river seemed like running blood

State Highway 57 east of Somerville Street, Moscow, TN , USA
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By late in 1863, the Union army occupying West Tennessee strongly defended the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, which ran eastward from Memphis through Moscow. Federal infantry, including the U.S. Colored Troops of the 2nd West Tennessee Infantry, manned

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