SEPTEMBER 20, 1861:
The
Battle of Barbourville, Kentucky: In order to deny the Union additional troops
for the ongoing Battle of Lexington, Missouri, General Albert Sidney Johnston
C.S.A., his forces reinforced by those of General Simon Bolivar Buckner C.S.A.,
moves units against a Union position, Camp Dick Robinson, outside of
Barbourville. The camp is manned mostly by green pro-Union Kentucky recruits.
The Confederates manage to seize the camp and destroy it and its supplies.
Casualties are low. Although a Confederate tactical victory, it is a strategic
defeat as in response, more Union troops are ordered to Kentucky.
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