of Richmond, KY Overview The Battle of Richmond, KY occurred
August 29-30,1862. It was the most complete Confederate Victory
of the American Civil War. The states of Indiana, Tennessee,
Arkansas, Ohio, Texas, Kentucky,Georgia, Louisiana, Michigan and
Florida all had soldiers who fought and died in the fields of
Madison County, KY on those terrible days. S. Scott commander of
the Confederate Cavalry cleared the way by defeating Union
forces in the Battle of Big Hill on August 23, 1862. They
crossed the Big Hill in force on the evening of August 28.
August 29th the Battle began. It opened as Scott's Cavalry
fanned out toward Richmond, and General Patrick Cleburne's
division began crossing the Big Hill. The Confederate Cavalry
ran into skirmishers from the 55th Indiana. The Hoosiers pushed
Scott's Louisianans, Georgians and Tennesseans back and captured
one of their mountain howitzers. Occassional rifle and cannon
fire lasted until evening ending the fighting except for a
couple of disasterious night attacks upo