The Battle of Richmond

August 29-30, 1862

In the summer of 1862 the Confederacy took the offensive

Robert E. Lee's army advanced into Maryland. Sterling Price and Earl Van Dorn's armies marched toward Corinth, Mississippi. Braxton Bragg and Kirby Smith moved out of Tennessee and into ...

Battle of Richmond

Phase One - Kingston

"The rebels had succeeded in out flanking us, and we were now under a terrible cross-fire from three sides...while their batteries still played upon us with their deadly meteors." Lt. Col. James R. S. Cox, 16th Indiana

In ...

The Battle of Richmond

August 29-30, 1862

In the summer of 1862 the Confederacy took the offensive

Robert E. Lee's army advanced into Maryland. Sterling Price and Earl Van Dorn's armies marched toward Corinth, Mississippi. Braxton Bragg and Kirby Smith moved out of Tennessee and into ...

Battle of Richmond

Kiosk 1

(Side 1):

Nelson Takes Command

The day after the battle at Big Hill, August 24, Gen. Horatio Wright, Commander of the Department of the Ohio, ordered Gen. William Nelson not to fight at Richmond unless he was sure of success. "Better ...

Battle of Richmond

Phase One - Kingston

"The rebels had succeeded in out flanking us, and we were now under a terrible cross-fire from three sides...while their batteries still played upon us with their deadly meteors." Lt. Col. James R. S. Cox, 16th Indiana

In ...

Battle of Richmond, Ky.

August 29-30, 1862

(Front):

Confederates: 12,000 Infantry, 4,000 Cavalry

Federals: 7,000 Infantry

Generals

Confederate, E. Kirby Smith

Federal, William Nelson, M.D. Manson

Losses

Confederate, 75 killed, 200 wounded

Federal, 206 killed, 844 wounded 4,303 prisoners (many men escaped) 9 pieces of artillery 10,000 stands of small arms ...

Battle of Richmond Masonic Memorial

Dedicated to the many brothers of the Masonic fraternity, both Union and Confederate, who gallantly fought during the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky August 29 & 30, 1862

Richmond Lodge No. 25

Madison Lodge No. 183

Kingston Lodge No. 315

Waco Lodge No. 338

Berea Lodge ...

The Battle of Richmond Knocked at Berea's Door

(front):

Civil War troop movements through Berea were common prior to the Aug. 29-30, 1862, Battle of Richmond. Military traffic in and near Berea caused villagers to hear the Civil War "knocking at their east door." At Big Hill on the ...