Battle of Augusta (1862)
Battle of Augusta (1862) | |||||||
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Part of the American Civil War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
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Commanders and leaders | |||||||
J. Taylor Bradford | Basil W. Duke | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
150 | 450 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
12 KIA, 3 WIA, 100 POW | 21 KIA, 18 WIA |
The Battle of Augusta was a battle during the American Civil War that took place on September 27, 1862, in Augusta, Kentucky, between the Bracken County Home Guard (Union) and the Confederate 2nd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment under command of Colonel Basil W. Duke, a brother-in-law of John Hunt Morgan.[1] The fight resulted in a victory for the Confederacy but the number of Confederate casualties and lack of ammunition for his artillery caused Confederate Colonel Duke to abandon plans to cross over the Ohio River into the northern states. This occurred after twenty buildings in town were destroyed by deliberately set fires.[1]
External links
- http://www.cincinnaticwrt.org/data/Augusta_KY_27_September_1862.html
- http://explorekyhistory.ky.gov/items/show/15#.VU6fkVJHaJJ
- http://www.battleofaugusta.com/
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confederate_Monument_in_Augusta
- http://www.walkingwithhistory.com/ Offers tours of Augusta and other Kentucky Civil War sites
- https://www.facebook.com/AugustaCivilWar Augusta in the Civil War Facebook page
References
- 1 2 "Battle of Augusta | ExploreKYHistory". ExploreKYHistory. Retrieved 2018-08-03.
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