biography
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Wilson, James Harrison
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| male
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| lived:
| (1837–1925)
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| biography:
| US soldier, born near Shawneetown, Illinois, USA. A hard-hitting Union cavalry commander, he defeated Nathan Forrest at Franklin, TN (1864), and a detachment of his command captured Jefferson Davis in Georgia in May 1865. He volunteered on the outbreak of the Spanish-American War and saw service in China during the Boxer Rebellion (1900). |
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