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TIL at the Battle of Wilson's Wharf in 1864, Confederate troops attacked African American troops for the first time, outnumbering them more than two to one, and lost. The Confederate commander (Robert E. Lee's nephew) was so embarrassed he made up that the Union attacked with six gunboats.

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