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Robert C. Murphy (colonel)

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Murphy entered military service around 1861 when the 8th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment was created around September 13, but wouldn't see any major operations until an entire year later at the
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policy at the depot, and the pursuing Confederates doused the fire in time to capture a large amount of supplies, and Murphy was captured himself in his pajamas. Afterwards,
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relieved Murphy, but then ordered him to be court-martialed for his failure to effectively being able to destroy the supplies, but Murphy was acquitted of all charges.
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concluded that his dismissal was reasonable. Murphy attempted for the next fifteen years to get a hearing but failed in the end. Murphy died in 1888 in
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Later in the same year, Murphy was put in charge of another supply depot stationed at
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Tarnished Eagles: The Courts-martial of Fifty Union Colonels and Lieutenant Colonels
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on the Union forces stationed there and defeated them, which took a heavy toll on
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to ask for a court-martial or hearing, but Adjudant-General
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from 1853 until June 1857. In 1859, Murphy moved to
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Chillicothe
Ohio
United States
Washington, D.C.
Congressional Cemetery
United States
Union
Union Army
8th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment
American Civil War
Battle of Iuka
Vicksburg campaign
Holly Springs Raid
Union
American Civil War
Vicksburg campaign
8th Wisconsin
Chillicothe, Ohio
Shanghai
China
Saint Croix Falls, Wisconsin
Battle of Iuka
scorched earth
William Rosecrans
Holly Springs, Mississippi
Earl Van Dorn
led a raid
Grant's
Vicksburg campaign

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