Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Bayan mutuwar Colonel Edward D. Baker a Ball's Bluff, Wistar ya zama kwamandan na 71 na Pennsylvania, kuma an ci gaba da shi zuwa kwamandan a ranar 11 ga Nuwamba, 1861. Na 71 ya shiga cikin Kamfen na Peninsular na 1862, ko da yake ba a bayyana ba ko Wistar ya kasance a zahiri; a yakin Bakwai Pines
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