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Defense of Cincinnati

Index Defense of Cincinnati

The Defense of Cincinnati occurred during what is now referred to as the Confederate Heartland Offensive or Kentucky Campaign of the American Civil War from September 1 through September 13, 1862, when Cincinnati, Ohio was threatened by Confederate forces. [1]

77 relations: Aaron F. Perry, African Americans, Ambrose Burnside, American Civil War, Basil W. Duke, Battle of Chantilly, Battle of Valverde, Black Brigade of Cincinnati, Braxton Bragg, Campbell County, Kentucky, Captain (United States O-3), Charles Whittlesey (geologist), Cincinnati, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Colonel (United States), Confederate Heartland Offensive, Confederate States Army, Confederate States of America, Conscription, Corps of Topographical Engineers, Covington, Kentucky, David Tod, Department of the Ohio, Devou Park, Eden Park (Cincinnati), Edmund Kirby Smith, Evergreen Cemetery (Southgate, Kentucky), Florence, Kentucky, Fort Mitchell, Kentucky, Fort Thomas, Kentucky, Fort Wright, Kentucky, General officers in the Confederate States Army, George Hatch, Henry Heth, Hooper Battery, Horatio Wright, Immaculata Church, Interstate 75, James A. Ramage Civil War Museum, James H. Simpson, John Buford, John G. Carlisle, Joseph Holt, Joshua Hall Bates, Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army, Kenton County, Kentucky, Lew Wallace, Lexington, Kentucky, Licking River (Kentucky), Lieutenant colonel (United States), ..., List of Governors of Ohio, Louisville, Kentucky, Ludlow, Kentucky, Major (United States), Major general (United States), Militia, Mount Adams, Cincinnati, Napoleon Bonaparte Buford, New Mexico Territory, Newport Barracks, Newport, Kentucky, Official Records of the War of the Rebellion, Ormsby M. Mitchel, Philip Kearny, Robert Anderson (Civil War), Second Battle of Corinth, Shaler Battery, Sidney Burbank, Strategic victory, U.S. Route 25 in Kentucky, Union (American Civil War), Union Army, United States, Walton, Kentucky, Wilder, Kentucky, William S. Groesbeck, 43rd Ohio Infantry. Expand index (27 more) »

Aaron F. Perry

Aaron Fyfe Perry (January 1, 1815 – March 11, 1893) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Ambrose Burnside

Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 23, 1824 – September 13, 1881) was an American soldier, railroad executive, inventor, industrialist, and politician from Rhode Island, serving as governor and a United States Senator.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (also known by other names) was a war fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865.

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Basil W. Duke

Basil Wilson Duke (May 28, 1838 – September 16, 1916) was a Confederate general officer during the American Civil War.

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Battle of Chantilly

The Battle of Chantilly (or Ox Hill, the Confederate name) took place on September 1, 1862, in Fairfax County, Virginia, as the concluding battle of the Northern Virginia Campaign of the American Civil War.

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Battle of Valverde

The Battle of Valverde, or the Battle of Valverde Ford, was fought from February 20 to 21, 1862, near the town of Valverde at a ford of Valverde Creek in Confederate Arizona, in what is today the state of New Mexico.

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Black Brigade of Cincinnati

The Black Brigade of Cincinnati was a military unit that was organized in 1862 during the American Civil War, when the city of Cincinnati, Ohio was in danger of being attacked, by the Confederate Army.

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Braxton Bragg

Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was a senior officer of the Confederate States Army who was assigned to duty at Richmond, under direction of the President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, and charged with the conduct of military operations of the armies of the Confederate States from February 24, 1864 until January 13, 1865, when he was charged with command and defense of Wilmington, North Carolina.

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Campbell County, Kentucky

Campbell County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Captain (United States O-3)

In the United States Army (USA), U.S. Marine Corps (USMC), and U.S. Air Force (USAF), captain (abbreviated "CPT" in the USA and "Capt" in the USMC and USAF) is a company grade officer rank, with the pay grade of O-3.

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Charles Whittlesey (geologist)

Charles Whittlesey (born Southington, Connecticut, 4 October 1808; died Cleveland, Ohio, 18 October 1886) was a soldier, geologist and an investigator of mounds relics of the United States.

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Cincinnati

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Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park

The Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park is a regional theatre in the United States.

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Colonel (United States)

In the United States Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force, colonel is the most senior field grade military officer rank, immediately above the rank of lieutenant colonel and immediately below the rank of brigadier general.

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Confederate Heartland Offensive

The Confederate Heartland Offensive or Kentucky Campaign of the American Civil War was fought in June-October 1862, when Confederates under Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith tried to draw Kentucky into the Confederacy by outflanking Union troops under Major General Don Carlos Buell.

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Confederate States Army

The Confederate States Army (C.S.A.) was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865).

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Confederate States of America

The Confederate States of America (CSA or C.S.), commonly referred to as the Confederacy, was an unrecognized country in North America that existed from 1861 to 1865.

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Conscription

Conscription, sometimes called the draft, is the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service.

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Corps of Topographical Engineers

The U.S. Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, authorized on 4 July 1838, consisted only of officers and was used for mapping and the design and construction of federal civil works such as lighthouses and other coastal fortifications and navigational routes.

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Covington, Kentucky

Covington is a city in Kenton County, Kentucky, located at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking Rivers.

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David Tod

David Tod (February 21, 1805 – November 13, 1868) was an American politician and industrialist from the U.S. state of Ohio.

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Department of the Ohio

The Department of the Ohio was an administrative military district created by the United States War Department early in the American Civil War to administer the troops in the Northern states near the Ohio River.

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Devou Park

Devou Park is a city park in Covington, Kentucky.

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Eden Park (Cincinnati)

Eden Park is an urban park located in the Walnut Hills and Mt. Adams neighborhoods of Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Edmund Kirby Smith

Edmund Kirby Smith (May 16, 1824 – March 28, 1893) was a career United States Army officer who fought in the Mexican-American War.

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Evergreen Cemetery (Southgate, Kentucky)

Evergreen Cemetery (Southgate, Kentucky) is the largest cemetery in Campbell County, Kentucky.

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Florence, Kentucky

Florence is a home rule-class city in Boone County, Kentucky, United States.

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Fort Mitchell, Kentucky

Fort Mitchell is a home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Fort Thomas, Kentucky

Fort Thomas is a home rule-class city in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States, on the southern bank of the Ohio River and the site of an 1890 US Army post.

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Fort Wright, Kentucky

Fort Wright is a home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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General officers in the Confederate States Army

The general officers of the Confederate States Army (CSA) were the senior military leaders of the Confederacy during the American Civil War of 1861–1865.

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George Hatch

George Hatch was a Democratic politician, who served as Mayor of the City of Cincinnati, Ohio, during the American Civil War from 1861 to 1863.

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Henry Heth

Henry Heth (not) (December 16, 1825 – September 27, 1899) was a career United States Army officer who became a Confederate general in the American Civil War.

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Hooper Battery

Hooper Battery was a hilltop earthworks fortification, built for the Defense of Cincinnati during the American Civil War in Northern Kentucky by the Union Army to turn back invading Confederate troops.

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Horatio Wright

Horatio Gouverneur Wright (March 6, 1820 – July 2, 1899) was an engineer and general in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Immaculata Church

The Church of the Immaculata, or Immaculata Church, is a Roman Catholic church atop Mt. Adams, a neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Interstate 75

Interstate 75 (I-75) is a major Interstate Highway in the Great Lakes and Southeastern regions of the United States.

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James A. Ramage Civil War Museum

The James A. Ramage Civil War Museum seeks to tell the untold story of Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky's involvement in the American Civil War.

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James H. Simpson

James Hervey Simpson (1813-1883) was an officer in the U.S. Army and a member of the United States Corps of Topographical Engineers.

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John Buford

John Buford, Jr. (March 4, 1826 – December 16, 1863) was a United States Army cavalry officer.

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John G. Carlisle

John Griffin Carlisle (September 5, 1834July 31, 1910) was a prominent American politician in the Democratic Party during the last quarter of the 19th century.

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Joseph Holt

Joseph Holt (January 6, 1807 – August 1, 1894) was a leading member of the Buchanan administration and was Judge Advocate General of the United States Army, most notably during the Lincoln assassination trials.

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Joshua Hall Bates

Joshua Hall Bates (March 5, 1817 – July 26, 1908) was a lawyer, politician, and Ohio militia general in service to the Union during the early part of the American Civil War.

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Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army

The Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Army is the legal arm of the United States Army.

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Kenton County, Kentucky

Kenton County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

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Lew Wallace

Lewis Wallace (April 10, 1827February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana.

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Lexington, Kentucky

Lexington, consolidated with Fayette County and often denoted as Lexington-Fayette, is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the 60th-largest city in the United States.

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Licking River (Kentucky)

The Licking River is a partly navigable, U.S. Geological Survey.

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Lieutenant colonel (United States)

In the United States Army, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Air Force, a lieutenant colonel is a field grade military officer rank just above the rank of major and just below the rank of colonel.

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List of Governors of Ohio

The Governor of Ohio is the head of the executive branch of Ohio's state government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 29th most-populous city in the United States.

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Ludlow, Kentucky

Ludlow is a home rule-class city in Kenton County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Major (United States)

In the United States Army, Marine Corps, and Air Force, major is a field grade military officer rank above the rank of captain and below the rank of lieutenant colonel.

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Major general (United States)

In the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and United States Air Force, major general is a two-star general-officer rank, with the pay grade of O-8.

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Militia

A militia is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional soldiers, citizens of a nation, or subjects of a state, who can be called upon for military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of regular, full-time military personnel, or historically, members of a warrior nobility class (e.g., knights or samurai).

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Mount Adams, Cincinnati

Mt.

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Napoleon Bonaparte Buford

Napoleon Bonaparte Buford (January 13, 1807 – March 28, 1883) was an American soldier, Union general in the American Civil War, and railroad executive.

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New Mexico Territory

The Territory of New Mexico was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed (with varying boundaries) from September 9, 1850, until January 6, 1912, when the remaining extent of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of New Mexico, making it the longest-lived organized incorporated territory of the United States, lasting approximately 62 years.

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Newport Barracks

Newport Barracks was a military barracks on the Ohio River, across from Cincinnati, Ohio in Newport, Kentucky.

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Newport, Kentucky

Newport is a home rule-class city at the confluence of the Ohio and Licking rivers in Campbell County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Official Records of the War of the Rebellion

The Official Records of the War of the Rebellion or often more simply the Official Records or ORs, constitute the most extensive collection of primary sources of the history of the American Civil War.

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Ormsby M. Mitchel

Ormsby MacKnight (or McKnight) Mitchel (August 28, 1810, or possibly 1809,October 30, 1862) was an American astronomer and major general in the American Civil War.

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Philip Kearny

Philip Kearny, Jr. (June 1, 1815 – September 1, 1862) was a United States Army officer, notable for his leadership in the Mexican-American War and American Civil War.

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Robert Anderson (Civil War)

Robert Anderson (June 14, 1805 – October 26, 1871) was a United States Army officer during the American Civil War.

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Second Battle of Corinth

The Second Battle of Corinth (which, in the context of the American Civil War, is usually referred to as the Battle of Corinth, to differentiate it from the Siege of Corinth earlier the same year) was fought October 3–4, 1862, in Corinth, Mississippi.

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Shaler Battery

Shaler Battery was a hilltop earthwork fortification built during the American Civil War in Northern Kentucky by the Union Army to turn back invading Confederate troops.

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Sidney Burbank

Sidney Burbank (October 1807 – December 7, 1882) served as an officer in the regular army before and during the American Civil War.

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Strategic victory

A strategic victory is a victory that brings long-term advantage to the victor and disturbs the enemy's ability to wage a war.

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U.S. Route 25 in Kentucky

U.S. Route 25 (US 25) runs for across the state of Kentucky from the split between US 25E and US 25W in North Corbin to US 42/US 127 at the Ohio state line in Covington.

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Union (American Civil War)

During the American Civil War (1861–1865), the Union, also known as the North, referred to the United States of America and specifically to the national government of President Abraham Lincoln and the 20 free states, as well as 4 border and slave states (some with split governments and troops sent both north and south) that supported it.

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Union Army

During the American Civil War, the Union Army referred to the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the Union of the collective states.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Walton, Kentucky

Walton is a home rule-class city in Boone and Kenton counties in the U.S. state of Kentucky.

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Wilder, Kentucky

Wilder is a home rule-class city in Campbell County, Kentucky, United States.

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William S. Groesbeck

William Slocum Groesbeck (July 24, 1815 – July 7, 1897) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio.

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43rd Ohio Infantry

The 43rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry (or 43rd OVI) was an infantry regiment in the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Cincinnati

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