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Map of Lovejoy's Station Battlefield core and study areas by the (American Battlefield Protection Program). While Confederate Cavalry commander Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler was absent, raiding Union supply lines from North Georgia to East Tennessee, Union Army commander Major General William T. Sherman sent cavalry Brigadier General Judson Kilpatrick to raid Confederate supply lines.
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.
Map of Allatoona Battlefield core and study areas by the American Battlefield Protection Program.. The Battle of Allatoona, also known as the Battle of Allatoona Pass, was fought October 5, 1864, in Bartow County, Georgia, and was the first major engagement of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War.
Georgia was one of the original seven slave states that formed the Confederate States of America in February 1861, triggering the U.S. Civil War.The state governor, Democrat Joseph E. Brown, wanted locally raised troops to be used only for the defense of Georgia, in defiance of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, who wanted to deploy them on other battlefronts.
Moreover, he is generally acknowledged as having been the head of the Ku Klux Klan in Georgia. Statue of Benjamin Harvey Hill, Confederate Senator, Georgia State Capitol. [4] Statue of Joe Brown and his wife. "Brown was the Confederate governor of Georgia and after the war served as [U.S.] senator. He also was an ardent secessionist.
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.
In 1909 the Kentucky Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy placed a small monument dedicated to the dead soldiers at the site entrance, and then an eleven-foot monument within the cemetery. A concrete base was added in 1930. [4] There were plans for a larger Civil War monument, but they never materialized. [2]
Perryville Battlefield State Historic Site is a 745-acre (3.01 km 2) park near Perryville, Kentucky.The park continues to expand with purchases of parcels by the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves' Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund and the American Battlefield Trust.