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Battle of Somerset

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By the time the Union forces responded, Pegram's cavalry had rounded up several hundred head of cattle. Gillmore's force caught up with Pegram outside Somerset on March 31. Gillmore drove Pegram's skirmishers up Dutton's Hill where the Confederates made a stand. Making no headway at first, Union
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Pegram retreated south of the Cumberland River leaving behind horses and much of his confiscated cattle. The defeat brought a significant amount of tension between Pegram and his subordinates.
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Gillmore's first independent field command was a success, though he continued to express interest in artillery and coastal service. General-in-Chief
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led a Confederate cavalry raid into central Kentucky which was defeated by Union forces under General
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In early 1863 Brigadier General John Pegram led a cavalry raid into Kentucky in the vicinity of
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Encyclopedia of the American Civil War: A Political, Social, and Military History
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made a successful charge against the hill forcing the Confederates to retreat.
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proposed campaign against Charleston, South Carolina
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Battle of Mill Springs
American Civil War
Somerset, Kentucky
United States
United States
Union
Confederate States of America
CSA (Confederacy)
Quincy A. Gillmore
John Pegram
American Civil War
John Pegram
Quincy A. Gillmore
Lexington
Department of the Ohio
Ambrose E. Burnside
45th Ohio Infantry
Henry W. Halleck
proposed campaign against Charleston, South Carolina
Battle of Dutton's Hill Monument
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page 206
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Historical Marker
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Kentucky in the American Civil War
Slavery in Kentucky
Union

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