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Battle of Coffeeville marker erected in
2009 |
(March 2002)
Enlarge Battle of Coffeeville site (Kentucky battery position).
The view is looking toward Coffeeville in the distant background |
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(March 2002)
Enlarge Battle of Coffeeville site (Baldwin's brigade campsite) |
(March 2002)
Enlarge Battle of Coffeeville site (Brow of the Rise). View
looking south toward the Confederate line. Narrative from Don's Sides
Mississippi Central Railroad Campaign Website: This is the view
the Union soldiers had approaching Coffeeville. Little did the Federal
cavalry realize the Confederate infantry lay in wait in the woods from the
far left foreground, to far past the right of this image. If you were a
Federal soldier at this spot at 2 pm on December 5, 1862, there would have
been thousands of Confederates with loaded muskets, waiting silently. When
the Union soldiers wrote of meeting “an overwhelming force” it is easy to
imagine how it must have felt to have looked over this broad field and seen
thousands of Rebel infantry and cavalry charging. The terrain looks much
the same today as it did then |
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Battle of Coffeeville site (Rear of the Confederate line). Looking
north from the center of the line, toward the Brow of the Rise |
(March 2002) Enlarge Battle of Coffeeville site (Trace of the Water Valley/Coffeeville Road). This section of the road trace is between the Confederate line and the Brow of the Rise. The view is looking south |
