Battle of Cloyd's Mountain
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Battle of Cloyd's Mountain | |||||||
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Part of American Civil War | |||||||
Pulaski County, location of the Battle of Cloyd's Mountain | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States (Union) | CSA (Confederacy) | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
George Crook Carr B. White Horatio G. Sickel |
Albert G. Jenkins † John McCausland | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
6,100 | 2,400 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
688 | 538 |
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The Battle of Cloyd's Mountain was a Union victory in western Virginia on May 9, 1864, that allowed the Union forces to destroy a large bridge on the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad. The railroad was used to carry Confederate troops and supplies, and served important lead and salt mines. It also helped connect the Confederate capital of Richmond with Tennessee, and had telegraph wires along its line for communications. The fight had a high percentage of casualties for both sides, and the Confederate commander, Brigadier General Albert G. Jenkins, was mortally wounded.