The Battle of
Richmond
On the
nights and days of August 29th and 30th, 1862 there was a
battle that raged between Maj. Gen. Kirby Smith led his confederate offense
north through Kentucky. While the Rebel Army moved north n a road near Big Hill
they ran into some confederate troops and later on the 29th the
battle of Richmond was being fought well into the night. The Yankees soon had
to retreat to a town close by called Rogersville where Smith rallied up some
men but by then it was to late and the Rebels had already captured about 4,000
Yankees. The Yankees had lost the battle due to the Rebel Army surrounding and
pushing back the Yankees. The Battle may have been lost for the Yankees but the
war nowhere near being over. The Civil War wouldn’t end for another 3 years
until April 9th, 1865.
John Brown
On a cold
October night in 1659 John Brown would do something that would lead to what
would be the biggest battle the war would ever see. At night John Smith would
sneak onto a confederate ferry and set fire to it. This act would later be
known as The Pottawatomie Massacre. This would later lead to the blacks beginning to rebel and
kill five armory men with the help of John Brown.
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