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Hoover’s Gap (1863)
 
War:   American Civil War
 
Date(s):   24 Jun 1863 - 26 Jun 1863
 
Location:   Bedford & Rutherford Counties, Tennessee, US
 
Outcome:   Union victory
 
Description:   Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas, USA
Maj. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart, CSA

Thomas deployed a corps against a Confederate cavalry regiment eventually supported by two infantry brigades.

Casualty figures have not survived.

On June 23, 1863, Rosecrans moved after waiting nearly six months. He feigned an attack on Shelbyville but massed against Bragg’s right. His troops struck out toward the gaps and George Thomas’s men forced Hoover’s Gap on the 24th. The Confederate 3rd Kentucky Cavalry Regiment, under Col. J.R. Butler, defended the Gap, but the Yankees easily pushed it aside. The lead Union brigade overran the 1st Kentucky Infantry’s lines at the south end of the gap, then held out long enough for two other brigades to come up and support it against Rebel counterattacks.

As the garrison of the Gap fell back, it ran into infantry brigades under Bushrod Johnson William Bate, which had moved up to support the cavalry pickets. Fighting continued south of the gap until just before noon on the 26th, when Maj. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart, the Confederate division commander, sent a message to Johnson and Bate stating that he was pulling back and they should also.


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