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or Frayser’s Farm, Va., a battle in the Peninsular campaign of the Civil War, occurring June 30, 1863. McClellan’s army had just emerged from White Oak Swamp, where had also been a fierce battle with Jackson’s troops. Hill and Long street fell upon the Federal rear and there was terrific fighting all the afternoon. McCall’s division of the Federals fared worst and that leader was captured. Darkne ended this indecisive battle. This fight is also called Nelson’s Farm and Charles City Cro -Roads. - Gnadenhutten, a settlement of Indians, Christian i zed by the Moravians, made in 1783. It was situated on the Muskingum River. For many years this village and the sister settlements of Salem and Schénbrunn were peaceful and prosperous, In 1781 Matthew Elliott, leading 300 whites and Hurons, appeared at Gnadenhiitten and urged the mi ionaries and Indians to depart to Sandusky. They did so, but returned the next year. Another troop of soldiers, frontiersmen and savages, under Colonel Williams on, and without civil or military authority, appeared, and brutally butchered the entire tribe, destroying their thriving village.