Confederate Heartland Offensive

When

14 Aug 1862 – 10 Oct 1862

Kind

Military operation

Coordinates

37.50° N, 85.00° W

Description

1862 military campaign during the American Civil War

Confederate military campaign during the American Civil War

The Confederate Heartland Offensive, also known as the Kentucky Campaign, was an American Civil War campaign conducted by the Confederate States Army in Tennessee and Kentucky where Generals Braxton Bragg and Edmund Kirby Smith tried to draw neutral Kentucky into the Confederacy by outflanking Union troops under Major General Don Carlos Buell.

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