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The Civil War in Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky, 2010) Howard, Victor B. "The Civil War in Kentucky: The Slave Claims His Freedom." Journal of Negro History (1982): 245–256. in JSTOR; McKnight, Brian Dallas. Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia (University Press of Kentucky, 2006) Marshall, Anne ...
Robertson, James I. Civil War Virginia: Battleground for a Nation, University of Virginia Press, Charlottesville, Virginia 1993 ISBN 0-8139-1457-4; 197 pages excerpt and text search Shanks, Henry T. The Secession Movement in Virginia, 1847–1861 (1934) online edition
Map of Richmond Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program. The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, fought August 29–30, 1862, was one of the most complete Confederate victories in the war [3] by Major General Edmund Kirby Smith against Union major general William "Bull" Nelson's forces, which were defending the town.
Richmond, Virginia, served as the capital of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War from May 1861 to April 1865. Besides its political status, it was a vital source of weapons and supplies for the war effort, as well as the terminus of five railroads; as such, it would have been defended by the Confederate States Army ...
Floyd County, Kentucky: American Civil War Offensive in Eastern Kentucky (1862) United States of America vs Confederate States of America Battle of Mill Springs [13] January 19, 1862 Pulaski County, Kentucky: American Civil War Offensive in Eastern Kentucky (1862) 164 United States of America vs Confederate States of America Battle of Richmond ...
Confederates repulse the Union attack and kill Commander James H. Ward of the Union Potomac Flotilla, the first Union Navy officer killed during the Civil War. July 13, 1861: Battle of Corrick's Ford: West Virginia (Virginia at the time) [A] Union: Confederate Brig. Gen. Robert S. Garnett is the first general killed in the Civil War. July 25, 1861
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 Civil War in Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky, 2010), recent overview online; Harrison, Lowell H. "The Civil War in Kentucky: Some Persistent Questions." The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (1978): 1–21. in JSTOR; Howard, Victor B. "The Civil War in Kentucky: The Slave Claims His Freedom." Journal of Negro History (1982 ...