Cynthiana, Ky

Encyclopedic Dictionary of American Reference · 1901 · p. 202
burned during the Civil War by the Confederate guerrilla Morgan, June 10, 1864. Morgan also, with 2,000 Confederates, defeated 600 Federals under Bur bridge and Hobson, but was, June 12, defeated in return by a superior force at Cynthiana. D. Dabney’s Mills, Va. Here, during Grant’s and Lee’s campaigns. about Richmond and Petersburg, in 1865, there occurred, February 6 and 7, some severe skirmishing between Crawford’s division of Warren's Federal corps and a Confederate force under Pegram. The Federal leaders were endeavoring to lengthen their line toward Hatcher’s Run when Pegram fell upon them. The Confederates were defeated and Pegram was killed. Dabney, R. L,., see appendix, page 481.
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