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List of battles fought in Kentucky
This is an incomplete list of military confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern US State of Kentucky since European contact. The region was part of New France from 1679 to 1763, ruled by Great Britain from 1763 to 1783, and part of the United States from 1783 to present.
Several wars that have directly affected the region including the French and Indian War (1754–1763), American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), Northwest Indian War (1785–1795), Tecumseh's War (1811–1812), War of 1812 (1812–1814), and the American Civil War (1860–1865).
Battles edit
| Name | Date | Location | War | Campaign | Dead | Belligerents |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unnamed battle[1] | 1745 (three days) | modern Ft. Thomas, Kentucky | Shawnee vs Miami & Cherokee | |||
| Siege of Logan's Fort[2][3] | May 23-June 1, 1777 | modern Stanford, Kentucky | American Revolutionary War | Western theater | 1 | Kentucky settlers vs Shawnees & allies |
| Siege of Boonesborough | September 7–18, 1778 | modern Boonesborough, Kentucky | American Revolutionary War | Western theater | 39 | Kentucky settlers vs Shawnees & allies |
| Girty's ambush[4] | October 1, 1779 | modern Dayton, Kentucky | American Revolutionary War | Western theater | 70+ | Native Americans[5] vs Continental Army & citizen laborers |
| Ruddle's Station[6] | June 22, 1780[7] | near modern Cynthiana, Kentucky | American Revolutionary War | Bird's invasion of Kentucky | 20+ | Kingdom of Great Britain & Shawnee vs Kentucky settlers |
| Long Run Massacre | September 13–14, 1781 | near modern Eastwood, Kentucky | American Revolutionary War | Western theater | 60+ [conjectural] | Kentucky settlers vs American Indians & Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Battle of Little Mountain | March 22, 1782 | near modern Mount Sterling, Kentucky | American Revolutionary War | Western theater | 24 | Wyandot vs Kentucky militia |
| Siege of Bryan Station | August 15–17, 1782 | modern Lexington, Kentucky | American Revolutionary War | Western theater | 5+ | Kentucky settlers vs American Indians & allies |
| Battle of Blue Licks | August 19, 1782 | near modern Mount Olivet, Kentucky | American Revolutionary War | Western theater | 79 | Kentucky militia vs Kingdom of Great Britain & American Indians |
| Battle of Barbourville[8] | September 19, 1861 | Barbourville, Kentucky | American Civil War | Kentucky Confederate Offensive (1861) | 8 | Kentucky home guard vs Confederate States of America |
| Battle of Camp Wildcat[9] | October 21, 1861 | near London, Kentucky | American Civil War | Kentucky Confederate Offensive (1861) | 15 | United States of America vs Confederate States of America |
| Battle of Ivy Mountain | November 8, 1861 | near Pikeville, Kentucky | American Civil War | Kentucky Confederate Offensive (1861) | 16[10] | United States of America vs Confederate States of America |
| Battle of Rowlett's Station[11] | December 17, 1861 | near Hart County, Kentucky | American Civil War | Kentucky Confederate Offensive (1861) | 10+ | United States of America vs Confederate States of America |
| Battle of Sacramento | December 28, 1861 | Sacramento, Kentucky | American Civil War | Kentucky Confederate Offensive (1861) | 12 | United States of America vs Confederate States of America |
| Battle of Middle Creek[12] | January 10, 1862 | 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[14] | August 29–30, 1862 | Richmond, Kentucky | American Civil War | Confederate Heartland Offensive (1862) | 284 | United States of America vs Confederate States of America |
| Battle of Munfordville[15] | September 14–17, 1862 | Munfordville, Kentucky | American Civil War | Confederate Heartland Offensive (1862) | United States of America vs Confederate States of America | |
| Battle of Augusta | September 27, 1862 | Augusta, Kentucky | American Civil War | Confederate Heartland Offensive (1862) | 36 | Confederate States of America vs Kentucky pro-Union home guard |
| Battle of Perryville[16] | October 8, 1862 | Perryville, Kentucky | American Civil War | Confederate Heartland Offensive (1862) | 1,426 | United States of America vs Confederate States of America |
| Battle of New Haven | December 30, 1862 | New Haven, Kentucky | American Civil War | Morgan's Christmas Raid | 0 | United States of America vs Confederate States of America |
| Battle of Somerset | March 31, 1863 | Somerset, Kentucky | American Civil War | ~300 | United States of America vs Confederate States of America | |
| Battle of Tebbs Bend | July 4, 1863 | Taylor County, Kentucky | American Civil War | Morgan's Raid in Kentucky, Indiana, & Ohio (1863) | United States of America vs Confederate States of America | |
| Battle of Lebanon | July 5, 1863 | Lebanon, Kentucky | American Civil War | Morgan's Raid in Kentucky, Indiana, & Ohio (1863) | 41 | United States of America vs Confederate States of America |
| Battle of the Cumberland Gap | September 7–9, 1863 | Cumberland Gap | American Civil War | Knoxville Campaign | United States of America vs Confederate States of America | |
| Battle of Paducah[17] | March 25, 1864 | Paducah, Kentucky | American Civil War | Forrest's Expedition into West Tennessee & Kentucky (1864) | United States of America vs Confederate States of America | |
| Battle of Salyersville | April 13–14, 1864 | Paintsville & Salyersville, Kentucky | American Civil War | 24+ | United States of America vs Confederate States of America | |
| Battle of Mt. Sterling | June 8–9, 1864 | Mt. Sterling, Kentucky | American Civil War | Morgan's Raid into Kentucky | 87 [disputed][18] | United States of America vs Confederate States of America |
| Battle of Cynthiana[19] | June 11–12, 1864 | Cynthiana, Kentucky | American Civil War | Morgan's Raid into Kentucky | United States of America vs Confederate States of America | |
| Simpsonville massacre[20] | January 25, 1865 | near Simpsonville, Kentucky | American Civil War | 22 | Confederate guerrillas[21] vs Company E, 5th United States Colored Cavalry |
See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ Bellevue. Arcadia Publishing (2005). 2005. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7385-4168-6. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
- ^ Lincoln County Historical Society (May 2001). Lincoln County, Kentucky. Turner Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 9781563117893. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ^ Kennedy, Frances H. (June 10, 2014). The American Revolution: An Historical Guidebook (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 217–218. ISBN 978-0199324224. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- ^ This action has no official name.
- ^ Led by Simon Girty and Col Alexander McKee
- ^ Mahan, Russell, The Kentucky Kidnappings and Death March: The Revolutionary War at Ruddell's Fort and Martin's Station (West Haven, UT: Historical Enterprises), 2020.
- ^ Various sources cite different dates. The Kentucky Encyclopedia (1992) simply states "1780". The source for this date is William Henry Perrin, History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky (Chicago: O. L. Baskin & Co.), 1882.
- ^ "CWSAC Battle Summary: Barbourville". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ "CWSAC Battle Summary: Camp Wildcat". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ "CWSAC Battle Summary: Ivy Mountain". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ "CWSAC Battle Summary: Rowlett's Station". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ "CWSAC Battle Summary: Middle Creek". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ "CWSAC Battle Summary: Middle Creek". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ "CWSAC Battle Summary: Richmond". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ "CWSAC Battle Summary: Munfordville". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ "CWSAC Battle Summary: Perryville". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ "CWSAC Battle Summary: Paducah". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ Sources for the number of Union soldiers killed in action vary from 8 to 32. Sources for the number of Confederate soldiers killed are consistent at 52.
- ^ "CWSAC Battle Summary: Mill Springs". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ Link to the state marker and the mass grave.
- ^ Henry C. Magruder, a Kentucky bushwhacker, took credit for the action. He claimed that he had fifteen men with him, including William Quantrill and Marcellus Jerome Clarke. See, Craig, Berry. Hidden History of Kentucky in the Civil War (Charleston, SC: The History Press), 2010, pp. 109-110.