Battle of Lucas Bend

When

11 Jan 1862

Kind

Battle

Coordinates

36.80° N, 89.17° W

Description

1862 battle of the American Civil War

Placed at the coordinates of its English Wikipedia article.

1862 battle of the American Civil War

The Battle of Lucas Bend took place on January 11, 1862, near Lucas Bend, four miles north of Columbus on Mississippi River in Kentucky as it lay at the time of the American Civil War. In the network of the Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio rivers, the Union river gunboats under Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote and General Ulysses S. Grant sought to infiltrate and attack the Confederate positions in Tennessee.

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