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The Hero of Smithfield Captures a Yankee Gunboat
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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On a January day in 1864, Confederate Capt. Nathaniel Sturdivant and his patrol arrived at Cherry Grove, a landing along Virginia’s James River, to seek out the enemy. He and his men soon found them in the town of Smithfield. Here's what happened next.
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