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Map showing the location of the battles. This is an incomplete list of all military confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern U.S. State of Indiana since European contact. The French first entered Indiana c. 1670.
The 15th Kentucky Cavalry [4] organized by Colonel Gabriel Netter in the summer of 1862, would make up 60 men during the battle. Colonel Netter was born in France in 1836 to a large Jewish family, he would immigrate to America in 1855. Colonel Netter joined the Union Army at the start of the American Civil War in 1861.
Union forces established Camp Clay in Ohio just north of the city of Newport, Kentucky, and Camp Joe Holt in Indiana opposite Louisville, Kentucky. [21] Meanwhile, Confederate troops constructed Forts Donelson and Henry just across Kentucky's southern border in Tennessee , and stationed troops fewer than 50 yards from Cumberland Gap . [ 21 ]
1864 map showing the eleven forts and other defenses. Viewed from the north; Kentucky is above the river, Indiana below. Louisville's fortifications for the American Civil War were designed to protect Louisville, Kentucky, as it was an important supply station for the Union's fight in the western theater of the war.
Department of Kentucky, May 28, 1861 - August 15, 1861 (Merged into the Dept. of the Cumberland) Department of Western Virginia, October 11, 1861 - March 11, 1862. (Merged into Mountain Department) District of the Kanawha, 1861-62 (Merged into Mountain Department) Railroad District, 1861–62; Camp Carlisle, VA, later renamed Camp Willey, WV ...
Map of Camp Wildcat Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. As the Confederates started up the Wilderness Road on the morning of October 21, 1861, Gen. Schoepf moved four companies of the 33rd Indiana Infantry Regiment , 350 men, 0.75 miles (1.21 km) to the east of Camp Wildcat to Round Hill, a steep ...
This is a list of military units raised by the Commonwealth of Kentucky, a neutral southern border state with dual competing Unionist and Confederate governments during the American Civil War, for service in the Union Army. Southern both geographically and culturally, an estimated 125,000 Kentuckians served as Union soldiers; almost quadruple ...
Map of Middle Creek Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. The Battle of Middle Creek was an engagement fought January 10, 1862, in Eastern Kentucky during the American Civil War. [2] It was the only battle personally commanded by future president James A. Garfield, then a colonel in the Union Army.