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3 unusual facts about Joseph Lee Heywood


Joseph Lee Heywood

Heywood finally lied and told him that there was a chronometer (time lock) on the safe and it could not be opened.

His initial duty chasing Generals Price and Van Doran did not result in any actual combat but he was soon drawn into the disastrous Battle of Chickasaw Bayou, led by General William Tecumseh Sherman, where he functioned as a skirmisher along the edge of the bayou and received intense fire from the Confederates on the bluff above the “Valley of Death" as well as some accidental friendly artillery fire.

One brother, John, was a farmer; two brothers, Silas and Charles, enlisted in the Union Army during the American Civil War.



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