List of battles fought in Kentucky

This is an incomplete list of military confrontations that have occurred within the boundaries of the modern US State of Kentucky since European contact. The region was part of New France from 1679–1763, ruled by Great Britain from 1763–1783, and part of the United States of American 1783–present.

Several wars that have directly affected the region including the French and Indian War (1754–1763), American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), Northwest Indian War (1785–1795), Tecumseh's War (1811–1812), War of 1812 (1812–1814), and the American Civil War (1860–1865).

Battles

Name	Date	Location	War	Campaign	Dead	Belligerents
unnamed battle[1]	1745 (three days)	modern Bellevue, Kentucky				Shawnee vs Miami & Cherokee
Siege of Logan's Fort[2][3]	May 23-June 1, 1777	modern Stanford, Kentucky	American Revolutionary War	Western theater	1	Kentucky settlers vs Shawnees & allies
Siege of Boonesborough	September 7–18, 1778	modern Boonesborough, Kentucky	American Revolutionary War	Western theater	39	Kentucky settlers vs Shawnees & allies
Girty's ambush[4]	October 1, 1779	modern Dayton, Kentucky	American Revolutionary War	Western theater	70+	Native Americans[5] vs Continental Army & citizen laborers
Ruddle's Station	June 22, 1780[6]	near modern Cynthiana, Kentucky	American Revolutionary War	Bird's invasion of Kentucky	20+	Kingdom of Great Britain & Shawnee vs Kentucky settlers
Long Run Massacre	September 13–14, 1781	near modern Eastwood, Kentucky	American Revolutionary War	Western theater	60+ [conjectural]	Kentucky settlers vs American Indians & Kingdom of Great Britain
Battle of Little Mountain	March 22, 1782	near modern Mount Sterling, Kentucky	American Revolutionary War	Western theater	24	Wyandot vs Kentucky militia
Siege of Bryan Station	August 15–17, 1782	modern Lexington, Kentucky	American Revolutionary War	Western theater	5+	Kentucky settlers vs American Indians & allies
Battle of Blue Licks	August 19, 1782	near modern Mount Olivet, Kentucky	American Revolutionary War	Western theater	79	Kentucky militia vs Kingdom of Great Britain & American Indians
Battle of Barbourville[7]	September 19, 1861	Barbourville, Kentucky	American Civil War	Kentucky Confederate Offensive (1861)	8	Kentucky home guard vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Camp Wildcat[8]	October 21, 1861	near London, Kentucky	American Civil War	Kentucky Confederate Offensive (1861)	15	United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Ivy Mountain	November 8, 1861	near Pikeville, Kentucky	American Civil War	Kentucky Confederate Offensive (1861)	16[9]	United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Rowlett's Station[10]	December 17, 1861	near Hart County, Kentucky	American Civil War	Kentucky Confederate Offensive (1861)	10+	United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Sacramento	December 28, 1861	Sacramento, Kentucky	American Civil War	Kentucky Confederate Offensive (1861)	12	United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Middle Creek[11]	January 10, 1862	Floyd County, Kentucky	American Civil War	Offensive in Eastern Kentucky (1862)		United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Mill Springs[12]	January 19, 1862	Pulaski County, Kentucky	American Civil War	Offensive in Eastern Kentucky (1862)	164	United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Richmond[13]	August 29–30, 1862	Richmond, Kentucky	American Civil War	Confederate Heartland Offensive (1862)	284	United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Munfordville[14]	September 14–17, 1862	Munfordville, Kentucky	American Civil War	Confederate Heartland Offensive (1862)		United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Augusta	September 27, 1862	Augusta, Kentucky	American Civil War	Confederate Heartland Offensive (1862)	36	Confederate States of America vs Kentucky pro-Union home guard
Battle of Perryville[15]	October 8, 1862	Perryville, Kentucky	American Civil War	Confederate Heartland Offensive (1862)	1,426	United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of New Haven	December 30, 1862	New Haven, Kentucky	American Civil War	Morgan's Christmas Raid	0	United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Tebbs Bend	July 4, 1863	Taylor County, Kentucky	American Civil War	Morgan's Raid in Kentucky, Indiana, & Ohio (1863)		United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Lebanon	July 5, 1863	Lebanon, Kentucky	American Civil War	Morgan's Raid in Kentucky, Indiana, & Ohio (1863)	41	United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of the Cumberland Gap	September 7–9, 1863	Cumberland Gap	American Civil War	Knoxville Campaign		United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Paducah[16]	March 25, 1864	Paducah, Kentucky	American Civil War	Forrest's Expedition into West Tennessee & Kentucky (1864)		United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Salyersville	April 13–14, 1864	Paintsville & Salyersville, Kentucky	American Civil War		24+	United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Mt. Sterling	June 8–9, 1864	Mt. Sterling, Kentucky	American Civil War	Morgan's Raid into Kentucky	87 [disputed][17]	United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Battle of Cynthiana[18]	June 11–12, 1864	Cynthiana, Kentucky	American Civil War	Morgan's Raid into Kentucky		United States of America vs Confederate States of America
Simpsonville massacre[19]	January 25, 1865	near Simpsonville, Kentucky	American Civil War		22	Confederate guerrillas[20] vs Company E, 5th United States Colored Cavalry

See also

• History of Kentucky
• Kentucky in the American Civil War

Notes

1. Bellevue, p. 7. Arcadia Publishing (2005) ISBN 978-0-7385-4168-6. Retrieved 2009-06-09.
2. Lincoln County Historical Society (May 2001). Lincoln County, Kentucky. Turner Publishing. p. 11. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
3. Kennedy, Frances H. (June 10, 2014). The American Revolution: An Historical Guidebook (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. pp. 217–218. ISBN 978-0199324224. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
4. This action has no official name.
5. Led by Simon Girty and Col Alexander McKee
6. Various sources cite different dates. The Kentucky Encyclopedia (1992) simply states "1780". The source for this date is William Henry Perrin, History of Bourbon, Scott, Harrison and Nicholas Counties, Kentucky (Chicago: O.L. Baskin & Co.), 1882.
7. "CWSAC Battle Summary: Barbourville". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
8. "CWSAC Battle Summary: Camp Wildcat". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
9. "CWSAC Battle Summary: Ivy Mountain". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
10. "CWSAC Battle Summary: Rowlett's Station". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
11. "CWSAC Battle Summary: Middle Creek". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
12. "CWSAC Battle Summary: Middle Creek". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
13. "CWSAC Battle Summary: Richmond". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
14. "CWSAC Battle Summary: Munfordville". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
15. "CWSAC Battle Summary: Perryville". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
16. "CWSAC Battle Summary: Paducah". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
17. Sources for the number of Union soldiers killed in action vary from 8 to 32. Sources for the number of Confederate soldiers killed are consistent at 52.
18. "CWSAC Battle Summary: Mill Springs". National Park Service. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
19. Link to the state marker and the mass grave.
20. Henry C. Magruder, a Kentucky bushwhacker, took credit for the action. He claimed that he had fifteen men with him, including William Quantrill and Marcellus Jerome Clarke. See, Craig, Berry. Hidden History of Kentucky in the Civil War (Charleston, SC: The History Press), 2010, pp. 109-110.