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| | Battle of Richmond - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Battle of Richmond, Kentucky, the arguably most complete Confederate victory in the American Civil War, took place on what is now the grounds of the Bluegrass Army Depot. |
 | | The Rebel cavalry, while moving north from Big Hill on the road to Richmond, Kentucky, on August 29, encountered Union troopers and began skirmishing. |
 | | Civil War historian Shelby Foote remarked in the first volume of his opus, The Civil War: A Narrative, that Smith "accomplished in Kentucky the nearest thing to a Cannae ever scored by any general, North or South, in the course of the whole war." |
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