The Rebels Escape Across the Cumberland, Abandon Eastern Kentucky

| January 20, 2012

January 20, 1862 (Monday) Unknown to Union General Thomas, the Rebels under General Crittenden had escaped under darkness, across the Cumberland River, into southern Kentucky. In the lonely moments before dawn, the last of the Confederates landed on the southern banks and burned the steamer used to ferry them across. As the morning broke, Thomas [...]