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Allen Wyant Gullion, the son of Edmund A. Gullion and Atha Hanks, was born on December 14, 1880, in the town of Carrollton, Kentucky. He attended Centre College in Danville, Kentucky, and subsequently the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York. [2]
On October 7, 1862, Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger revived the name "Army of Kentucky". It was originally composed of three divisions commanded respectively by generals Andrew J. Smith, Quincy A. Gilmore, and Absalom Baird. [1] This form of the army was unusual in the fact that on January 20, 1863, it was attached to the larger Army of the Cumberland.
Kentucky was a southern border state of key importance in the American Civil War.It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance.
June, 1864 • Major Gen. Stephen G. Burbridge assumes military command over Kentucky. June 11–12, 1864 • The Battle of Cynthiana , part of Morgan's Last Raid, is fought over two days, resulting in a Federal victory on June 12, and a total rout of Morgan's forces.
The Confederate Heartland Offensive (August 14 – October 10, 1862), also known as the Kentucky Campaign, was an American Civil War campaign conducted by the Confederate States Army in Tennessee and Kentucky where Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith tried to draw neutral Kentucky into the Confederacy by outflanking Union troops under Major General Don Carlos Buell.
The following is a partial list of generals or naval officers (at or above the rank of commodore) either born in Kentucky or living in Kentucky when they joined the army or navy (or in a few cases, men who were buried in Kentucky following the war, although they did not directly serve in Kentucky units).
The designation "Army of Kentucky" was given August 25, 1862 to the field army Kirby Smith led into eastern Kentucky during the Confederate Heartland Offensive. [2] The army was drawn from troops of the Confederate Department of Eastern Tennessee, which had been created with Smith as commander in February 1862. [1]
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