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	Battle of Mill Springs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Battle of Mill Springs, also known as the Battle of Fishing Creek in Confederate terminology, and the Battle of Logan's Cross Roads in Union terminology, was fought in Wayne and Pulaski Counties, near current Nancy, Kentucky, on January 19, 1862, as part of the American Civil War.
		The Battle of Mill Springs, along with the Battle of Middle Creek, broke the Confederate strength in eastern Kentucky.
		Mill Springs was the larger of the two Union Kentucky victories in January 1862.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Battle_of_Mill_Springs (641 words)

	Mahlon Dickerson Manson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He commanded a brigade in the Army of Kentucky at the Battle of Mill Springs in 1862 and was promoted to brigadier general on March 24, 1862, based on his actions there.
		General Manson was wounded in the thigh and captured by Confederate forces at the Battle of Richmond, Kentucky.
		General Manson returned to brigade command, in the Army of the Ohio, during the Atlanta Campaign and was seriously wounded in the Battle of Resaca, Georgia.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mahlon_Dickerson_Manson (373 words)

	Mill Springs Park
		The mill was equipped with 48 inch French burrs, millstones for grinding wheat and corn.
		Powered by 13 natural springs located beside the mill, it is thought to be one of the largest of it's kind in the world.
		Mill Springs is now on the National Register of Battlefields and is one of 25 Civil War battlefields that is included on a special Endangered Battlefield list.
	www.lrn.usace.army.mil /history/mill_springs_park.htm (896 words)

	Mill Springs National Cemetery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mill Springs National Cemetery is situated on a high, sloping knob in Pulaski County near Logan's Cross Roads in Kentucky.
		Mill Springs was important for another reason: it revealed the deep divisions that existed throughout the border states.
		The staff at Mill Springs National Cemetery want to thank you for your cooperation in helping us to make this cemetery a national shrine, a final resting place of Honor and Dignity in memory of the veterans of this great nation.
	www.cem.va.gov /nchp/millsprings.htm (1176 words)

	<B>THE BATTLE OF MILL SPRINGS JANUARY 19, 1862</B>
		He deployed his brigade in line of battle generally to the right of the Mill Springs road, with some of the Tennessee troops on the left.
		The Battle of Mill Springs not only caused the destruction of a Confederate Army, but it left the Southern forces at Bowling Green open to attack.
		Mill Springs was the first step on the road to Shiloh.
	www.state.ky.us /agencies/khc/millspri.htm (572 words)

	Near-by attractions
		Also nearby, the Mill Springs National Cemetery, one of the country’s oldest and smallest national cemeteries, is the final resting place of many Union soldiers killed in the battle.
		Mill Springs, KY Located in Wayne County on beautiful Lake Cumberland, historic Mill Springs is the site of the largest overshot water wheel in the world and it is still in operation.
		Mill Springs was the site of one of the most intense battles of the Civil War, January 17, 1862.
	www.monticellokychamber.com /location.htm (1364 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The battle at Mill Springs was the first important victory achieved by the Union army in the Southwest after the outbreak of the (rebellion, and the result of that engagement occasioned great rejoicing throughout the loyal North.
		The battle of Pittsburg Landing is sometimes called the battle of Shiloh, some of the hardest fighting having been done in the vicinity of an old log church called the Church of Shiloh, about three miles from the landing.
		The First battery was the only organization from Minnesota engaged in the battle, and their conduct in the fiercest of the struggle, and in changing position in face of fire from the whole rebel line, was such as to receive the warmest commendation from the commanding officer.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/ropdist4.html (9286 words)

	Restoration of Wayne home planned (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		MILL SPRINGS, Ky. — A preservation group is seeking money to restore a 200-year-old house that played a role in a pivotal Civil War battle.
		The battle was significant because it was one of several that broke Confederate defenses across Southern Kentucky and helped keep the state under Union control during the war.
		Its significance in Civil War history is that Zollicoffer occupied the house, then owned by a Union sympathizer, in the weeks leading up to the Battle of Mill Springs, according to accounts at the county museum.
	www.courier-journal.com /localnews/2004/12/28ky/B5-oldhouse12280-4827.html (552 words)

	KY:Historical Society - Historical Marker Database - Search for Markers
		With those aims the Confederate Defense Line was formed from the Big Sandy Valley in east Kentucky thru Cumberland Gap, Mill Springs on Cumberland River, Bowling Green on L & N Ry., to Columbus, Ky. on the Mississippi River.
		This Mill Springs victory with defeat of Brig.
		In heavy rain and smoke of battle, Zollicoffer was killed approaching USA lines, which he mistook for own troops.
	kentucky.gov /kyhs/hmdb/MarkerSearch.aspx?mode=Subject&subject=153 (630 words)

	millsprings-report
		SIR: I have the honor to transmit General Thomas' report of the battle of Mill Springs, and to commend the services of his troops to the approbation of the General-in-Chief for their fortitude under discomforts and difficulties and their gallantry in battle.
		On January 17 I was occupying Mill Springs, on the south side of the Cumberland River, with the Seventeenth, Twenty-eighth, and Thirty-seventh Tennessee Regiments, the First Battalion Tennessee Cavalry, two companies of the Third Battalion Tennessee Cavalry, and four pieces of artillery.
		From Mill Springs and on the first stages of my march many officers and men, frightened by false rumor of the movements of the enemy, shamelessly deserted, and, stealing horses and mules to ride, fled to Knoxville, Nashville, and other places in Tennessee.
	www.aotc.net /mill-report.htm (6960 words)

	Mill Springs
		After the battle, amid rumors that he had been drunk during the battle, which may or may not have been true, or only partially true, Crittenden was removed from command, and he served in no further sifgnificant military capacity during the war.
		In this first successful western battle, fought upon a plan originated under the emergency of an attack by superior forces, every movement from first to last was a harmonious part of an action which was fought under circumstances that would have brought defeat had they not been clearly perceived and provided for by General Thomas.
		And this battle, which was only incidental, as far as the great plans and purposes of General Johnston and General Buell were concerned, was the only positive victory won in Kentucky during the war, although large armies subsequently marched and maneuvered in that State.
	www.aotc.net /MillSprings.htm (15336 words)

	Civil War Battlefield Guide - -Mill Springs, Kentucky (KY006) , Pulaski and Wayne Counties, January 19, 1862 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After the battle at Wildcat Mountain in October 1861, CS Brigadier General Felix Zollicoffer moved his troops west from Cumberland Gap to Mill Springs, not far from Monticello, on the Cumberland River.
		One of the many difficulties facing Crittenden in the battle was the fact that large numbers of his troops were armed with outdated flintlock muskets, which easily fouled in the rain.
		The loss was demoralizing for the Confederates, and it signaled the abandonment of a Confederate western frontier that, at the beginning of the war, extended from Columbus, Kentucky, on the Mississippi River, all across southern Kentucky to the Cumberland Gap.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/civwar/html/cw_001402_millspringsk.htm (691 words)

	Flags Of The Confederacy
		The extend of the adoption of Polk style battle flags by the elements of Withers' former division is muddied, but at least one regiment (the 10th Mississippi) of another brigade of the division had a 12 star Polk pattern battleflag made for it in 1863.
		The Hardee battle flag would continue its legacy into the campaigns of 1864 and 1865 when Cleburne's Division would successfully petition General Joseph E. Johnston to be exempted from the distribution of the new Army of Northern Virginia battle flags made at Augusta, Georgia, during the winter of 1863-1864.
		After the battle there is evidence to indicate that some of the battle flags that Polk had ordered from Cassidy were indeed issued to units of his corps, though rather haphazardly, as one of the cavalry size flags was issued to an infantry unit!
	www.confederateflags.org /army/FOTCaotm.htm (4164 words)

	Battle Summary: Mill Springs, KY
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		George Crittenden, Zollicoffer’s superior, had arrived at Mill Springs and taken command of the Confederate troops.
		Mill Springs, along with Middle Creek, broke whatever Confederate strength there was in eastern Kentucky.
	www.cr.nps.gov /hps/abpp/battles/ky006.htm (332 words)

	Weapons, Part 4
		The artillery pieces used in the battle of Mill Springs were of three general types: (1) bronze smoothbore cannon, (2) bronze rifled guns, and (3) iron rifled guns.
		Lacking evidence to the contrary, it would therefore appear that the bronze rifled guns at Mill Springs were probably rifled M1841 6-pounders, not the distinctive 14-pounder James rifle.
		During the battle itself, the battery had difficulty in finding a suitable firing position (due to the terrain), but they fired some shells over the woods toward the enemy, and they later fired on the Beech Grove position until dark.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/1864/weapons_part_4.htm (1823 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jan. 19th, it participated in the battle of Mill Springs, where the Confederates, under Gen.'s Crittenden and Zollicoffer, were signally defeated.
		After the battle of Mill Springs the First was on hard duty in Kentucky all winter.
		In Tarrant's history of the regiment, it is stated that a Georgia captain, who was captured at Mill Springs, said to Wolford: "Col., this is a dreadful business." "Yes, it is," replied the Col. "All we want is to be let alone," said the captain.
	www.unionregimentsofkentucky.com /thomasspeed/cavalry/1kycav.html (2624 words)

	FJCPDC Legal Holidays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This battle is also of significance inasmuch as two future Presidents, Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley, participated in the battle.
		In 1862, the Battle of Antietam Creek in Maryland.
		In 1862, the Battle of Antietam fought in Maryland.
	www.publicdefender.com /FJCPDCLegalHolidays.html (3215 words)

	Kentucky Highlands Timeline 1860 to 1869
		The battle of Mill Springs, or Fishing Creek, on Logan’s Crossroads near Somerset Kentucky occurred on January 19, 1862, and ended after three hours with the Southern troops in discouraging retreat.
		After this battle the Confederate troops of the Army of the Cumberland was forced to retreat and were pursued by Brigadier-General Alvin Shoef’s brigade which had moved up from its headquarters at Somerset.
		The Battle of Mill Springs in Wayne County ends in Union victory and the death of Confederate General Felix Zollicoffer.
	www.kentuckyhighlands.com /kh/Timeline/1860_1869.asp (968 words)

	Civil War Battles
		The Battle of Chancellorsville was a major battle of the American Civil War in 1863.
		The Battle of Gettysburg (July 1—3, 1863), fought in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, as part of the Gettysburg..
		The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, sometimes simply referred to as the Battle of Spotsylvania, was the second battle in Lieut.
	cybersleuth-kids.com /sleuth/History/US_History/Civil_War/Battles/index1.htm (300 words)

	Battle of Mill Springs, The [Laws A13] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Jan 19, 1862 - Battle of Logan Cross Roads (Mill Springs), Kentucky.
		Thomas's text, e.g., calls itthe conflict "Humboldt Springs," which is no battle at all (at least according to Phisterer's comprehensive list of 2261 Civil War battles) and implies that the boy is from England.) It's really just a platform for a lot of familiar themes: The dying soldier bidding his family farewell, etc.
		Mill Springs may have been chosen because it was one of the first battles of the war (the only prior battles of significance were First Bull Run and Wilson's Creek; Mill Springs was the first real battle on the Kentucky front).
	www.csufresno.edu /folklore/ballads/LA13.html (199 words)

	MillSprings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Battle of Mill Springs, Ky was the first major Union Victory of the Civil War and the first of twelve campaigns for the Army of the Cumberlands.
		It was part of the struggle for the control of Cumberland Gap on the far right of the Confederate western theater which stretched from eastern Kentucky to Columbus, Ky. on the Mississippi River.
		The stakes were high for General Thomas, no victory at Mill Springs, no victory at Ft. Donelson.
	www.theborderlands.org /MillSprings.htm (334 words)

	Reminiscences of Pioneer Days in St. Paul (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The first boat through the lake in the spring was granted free wharfage, and as that meant about a thousand dollars, there was always an effort made to force a passage through the lake as soon as possible.
		After the battle Gen. Pope, who was in command of the department of the Northwest, telegraphed the war department that the Indian war was over and asked what disposition to make of the troops then under his command.
		The balance of the condemned were kept in close confinement till spring, when they were taken to Davenport, and afterward to some point on the Missouri river, where a beneficent government kindly permitted them to sow the seed of discontent that finally culminated in the Custer massacre.
	www.blackmask.com /thatway/books136c/rempau.htm (19675 words)

	Battle of Mill Springs / Fishing Creek
		This page presents historical information on the campaign and battle of Mill Springs, Kentucky (also called Fishing Creek and Logan's Crossroads), 19 January 1862; and genealogical information on the soldiers who fought there, including unit rosters and photos.
		See which units were involved on each side, in the Order of Battle.
		The Mill Springs Battlefield is one of the least disturbed rural battle sites in the nation, but it needs your help to stay that way.
	www.geocities.com /Pentagon/Quarters/1864 (420 words)

	The Battle of Mill Springs--Reading 2
		Crittenden and his commanders decided their best strategy was to strike now, before additional Union troops arrived; if they waited, the Union would soon attack the defenses the South had set up near the community of Mill Springs.
		After six hours of marching in the dark, the Confederate troops encountered Federal pickets and the Battle of Mill Springs began.
		Then the tide of the battle turned against the Confederates, particularly after the 9th Ohio made one of the first and most effective bayonet charges of the Civil War.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/72mill/72facts2.htm (1038 words)

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