Mulligan Letters

letters which James Mulligan, bookkeeper for Warren Fisher, of Boston, testified before a Congre ional committee in 1876 had been written by James G. Blaine to Mr. Fisher. The importance of these letters during the campaign of 1884 was due to the discu ion as to whether they were or were not discreditable to Blaine. Mulligan died 1894.: Mumfordsville, Ky., scene of an encounter between Chalmers, leading the advance guard of Bragg’s army of 25,000 Confederates, and 21,000.Federals under Wilder and Dunham. The Confederates began the fight and were repulsed in their first attack. But Bragg gradually drew his forces about Wilder until there was no chance of escape for that leader, who accordingly surrendered, September 17, 1862.