General Leonidas Polk's invasion of Columbus ends…

1862 CE

General Leonidas Polk's invasion of Columbus ends Kentucky's policy of neutrality and turns it against the Confederacy.

Grant uses river transport and Andrew Hull Foote's gunboats of the Western Flotilla to threaten the Confederacy's "Gibraltar of the West" at Columbus, Kentucky.

Although rebuffed at Belmont, Grant cuts off Columbus.

The Confederates, lacking their own gunboats, are forced to retreat and the Union takes control of western Kentucky and opens Tennessee in March 1862.

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Andrew Hull Foote View → Leonidas Polk View → Ulysses S. Grant View →

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Kentucky, Commonwealth of (U.S.A.) View → Tennessee, State of (U.S.A.) View → United States of America (US, USA) (Washington DC) View → Confederate States of America (C.S.A.) View →

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American Civil War (War between the States, War of the Rebellion, War of Secession, War for Southern Independence) View → Western Theater of the American Civil War View →

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