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No Union Casualties, Yet 1 Killed?[edit]

Doesn't make much sense, I assume a simple oversight? 100.16.197.68 (talk) 02:26, 13 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

During the battle, no one was killed. After the surrender, Union soldiers did a gun salute and one of the guns exploded, killing a soldier. JackTheStallion (talk) 05:35, 26 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]