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Re: Choctaws soldiers at the Battle of Newtonia

I know the Newtonia Battlefields intimately, having drawn more than one map of the fields and locations of campsites, famrs etc., during those years. It was not as heavily wooded then as it is now. The direct road to Granby from Newtonia which was heavily used by both sides during the war is no longer visible having fell to the plow. There has been a few surveys of the fields of Newtonia and much is still left undone. What would be unique and of interest is if a duplicate of the Ritchey steam mill could be reproduced for the battlefield, as much of the traffic from both sides as well as controlling the population of that part of the country was related to that mill, which burned down a few years after the war.

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Choctaws soldiers at the Battle of Newtonia
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