01/10/1862
Brigadier-General Humphrey Marshall had been recruiting for the Confederacy in eastern Kentucky and had raised a force of around 2,000 men. Thirty year-old Colonel James A. Garfield was ordered to take his Union brigade and drive Marshall from the state. This he did after a small battle at Middle Creek in Floyd County. Deaths on both sides combined did not exceed a hundred but the Confederacy was driven from Kentucky and the Union moved closer to an invasion of eastern Tennessee. (By John Osborne)
Source Citation:
Chronicles of the Great Rebellion Against the United States of America (Philadelphia, PA: A. Winch, 1867), 18.