A modern mural depicting the "Squirrel Hunters" crossing the Ohio River for the defense of Cincinnati.
Date
September 1–13, 1862
Location
Kenton County & Campbell County, Kentucky, & Cincinnati, Ohio
Result
Union strategic victory
Belligerents
United States (Union)
CSA (Confederacy)
Commanders and leaders
Lew Wallace
Henry Heth
Strength
85,000 [approximate 25,000 military & 60,000 militia]
8,000 [approximate]
Casualties and losses
6 total 1 killed 5 wounded
Unknown
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Confederate Heartland Offensive Kentucky Campaign
Great Locomotive Chase
Lebanon
1st Chattanooga
1st Murfreesboro
Cumberland Gap
Cincinnati
Richmond
Riggins Hill
Munfordville
Augusta
Perryville
The Defense of Cincinnati occurred during what is now referred to as the Confederate Heartland Offensive or Kentucky Campaign of the American Civil War, from September 1 through September 13, 1862. Confederate Brigadier General Henry Heth was sent north from Lexington, Kentucky, to threaten Cincinnati, Ohio, then the sixth-largest city in the United States. Heth was under orders from his superior, Major General Edmund Kirby Smith, not to attack the city, but to instead make a "demonstration".[1] Once Heth arrived and reconnoitered the defenses, he realized an attack was pointless. After a few minor skirmishes, he took his men back to Lexington.
^"About midnight, he [Smith] came to my room and said I might take such and such brigades and make a demonstration on Cincinnati." Heth, p. 166.
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