Gordon Blockade Runner Flag 3rd mississippi "Our Homes

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Forrest’s men pursued the retreating Union army into Chattanooga and took hundreds of prisoners

When he graduated in 1828 he placed twenty-third in a class of thirty-four

The Missourians only had a chance to get off one volley before they were scattered

Gordon Blockade Runner Flag 3rd mississippi "Our HomesThe Gordon was a 177' side wheeler built in New York in 1851. She was first owned by a stock company that used her as a privateer. The Gordon was one of only two privateers By the end of that ran the blockade to undertake their raids. By the end of August 1861 they both had returned to port, their privateering days ended by Union vigilance. In August of 1861, she was purchased by John Fraser and Company and renamed the Theodora. She was owned by the