Jamestown Skirmishes
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Dec. 25, 1861, part of First Ky. Cav., USA, camped at Webb's Cross Roads to guard stored corn and forage and scout CSA operations. Detachment skirmished with enemy here resulting in one death, CSA. Both armies in area again, 1863. On June 2, 300 CSA attacked Union pickets, driving them into town. CSA retired when met by alert USA.
One CSA man and weapons captured.
Location
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Phelps Acres Farm
N. of Jamestown, KY
John Phelps served in the Revolutionary War as defender of Boonesborough.
Forage Depot-Civil War
US 127, KY
In Dec. 1861, Col. Frank Wolford, USA, with Companies A, B, C and H left Camp Billy Williams enroute to Webbs Cross Roads.
Russell County
Jamestown, KY
Established, 1825, out of parts of Adair, Wayne, Cumberland.