Mitchel takes Huntsville and cuts the Memphis and Charleston
April 11, 1862, Huntsville, Alabama.
- Date
- April 11, 1862
- Where
- Huntsville, Alabama
- What happened
- Captured
- Event
- 29 of 174
Union troops under Ormsby Mitchel marched from Shelbyville and seized Huntsville on the morning of April 11 without a shot fired. The Memphis and Charleston, the only east to west railroad through the Confederacy, was cut off from Confederate use.
The line
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