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and it was one of the most successful surprise attacks
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by these large unwieldy armies that
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ever happened in this war.
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He marched his men twenty miles,
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most of it in darkness,
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with all kinds of clothing and burlap used as muffling
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on the wheels of caissons and wagons;
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even men were told to put muffling on their boots.
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And they marched through night in the dark,
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April 5 to 6, 1862,
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north from Corinth,
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across the border into Tennessee,