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3 unusual facts about Hugh Judson Kilpatrick


Casto Méndez Núñez

When Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, the American Minister to Chile, learned that Commodore Méndez Núñez was to bombard the port of Valparaiso, he asked the American naval commander Commodore John Rodgers to attack the Spanish fleet.

The Affair at Glenmore Farm

At about the time the Battle of Antietam was occurring, Lt. Col. Hugh Judson Kilpatrick, commanding ten companies of cavalry, left Washington to reoccupy Leesburg and clear the area of any remaining Confederates.

Wilson Caldwell

Wilson Caldwell walked out with University President Swain, Judge W. H. Battle and others to the "foot of Piney Prospect to meet the incoming detachment of General Hugh Judson Kilpatrick's cavalry, in order to claim protection for the town and the University."



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