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Fishing
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The
decision set him upon a path that would ultimately take him into the
Confederate States Army and deposit him a thousand miles from home on Deep
River in North Carolina. By the time he saw Northwest Missouri again four
years later, he had been in the Battle of Blue Mills Landing, the Battle
of Lexington, the Battle of Pea Ridge, the battles at Luka, Corinth,
Hatchie's Bridge, Port Gibson, Big Black River, Champion's Hill,
Vicksburg, Atlanta, Franklin, and Murfreesboro. Fishing on Deep River is available in the St. Joseph Museum gift shop and in area bookstores. The retail price is $28. [Contributed by St. Joseph Museums, Inc.]
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Fishing
on Deep River is the Civil War Memoir of Pvt. Samuel Baldwin Dunlap, C.S.A.,
a DeKalb resident, who at seventeen left behind his classes at the
Bloomingdale Academy in Buchanan County, Missouri, and enrolled in the
Missouri State Guard, as his brothers, James Wallace and Robert Dunlap,
had done.