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    TRANS-MISSISSIPPI COMMANDER

    May 16, 2023 2 minutes

    ccording to the author, Samuel Curtis “was the most important figure in the Civil War west of the Mississippi River.” Why, then, has there been no book-length biography about him until now? It’s certainly not for the sparsity of source material. Information about Union Maj. Gen. Samuel Ryan Curtis rests in libraries and archives from California to Connecticut, and

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