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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.
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.
Battles of the Federal Penetration up the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers of the American Civil War (5 P) Pages in category "Battles of the American Civil War in Kentucky" The following 21 pages are in this category, out of 21 total.
Russell County is a county located in the U.S. Commonwealth of Kentucky. As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,991. [1] Its county seat is Jamestown and its largest city is Russell Springs. [2] The county was formed on December 14, 1825, from portions of Adair, Cumberland and Wayne Counties and is named for William Russell. [3]
Battles of the American Revolutionary War in Kentucky (8 P) Pages in category "Battles in Kentucky" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.
Some 25,010 Kentuckians served in war, which was about five out of every six men then of military age. Fighting against both the British and their Native Americans allies, Kentucky sent a total of 36 regiments, four battalions, and twelve independent companies to the field, an almost unbelievable accomplishment considering the state's small population at the time.
Lt R.A. Mizell of the "Southern Rifles" Company A 4th Georgia Infantry; resigned in 1864 after being wounded in the Battle of the Wilderness; joined Company "A" 2nd Kentucky Cavalry of John Hunt Morgan command Group of John Hunt "Morgan's Men" while prisoners of war in Western Penitentiary, Pennsylvania: (l to r) Captain William E. Curry, 8th Kentucky Cavalry; Lieutenant Andrew J. Church, 8th ...
Assigned to duty scouting in the mountains of eastern Kentucky and operating against guerrillas until January 1864. Oweningville September 19–20, 1862. Brookville September 28. Operations in Bath, Estill, Powell, Clark, Montgomery, and Owsley counties October 16–25. Perry County, Kentucky River, November 8. Johnson County December 1.