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Civil War Skirmish at Pilot Knob AUGUST 20, 1862

Civil War Skirmish at Pilot Knob AUGUST 20, 1862 is a Tennessee historical marker in Sumner County.

Intersection of Nashville Pike and Big Station Camp Creek Blvd. Gallatin, Tennessee

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Seven tenths of a mile north of this marker at the Louisville & Nashville Railroad bridge over Station Camp Creek, Capt. A.H. Miller and 50 Union soldiers of the 50th Indiana Volunteer Infantry were attacked by Confederate Col. J. H. Morgan's 2nd Kentucky Cavalry. Forty of the 130 Gallatin citizens previously taken prisoner by the Union detachment because of their Southern sentiments by the Union detachment under Col. H. Heffren was freed. The Indianans lost 3 killed and 46 to capture. The bridge was burned but would later be rebuilt by the Union Army and garrisoned. The fighting moved west to Sandersville as the Union forces tried to reach Nashville.

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