In eastern Kentucky, future U.S. President James A. Garfield wins a small but important Union victory

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)