Battle of Buffington Island
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The <entity_0>, also known as the <entity_1>, was an <entity_2> engagement in <entity_7>, <entity_10>, and Jackson County, <entity_5>, on <entity_6>, during <entity_4>. The largest <entity_9> in <entity_10> during the war, <entity_3> contributed to the capture of the famed Confederate cavalry raider, Brig. Gen. John H. Morgan, who was seeking to escape Union army pursuers across the <entity_10> River at a ford opposite <entity_3>. <entity_4> was of little military consequence, but it did spread terror among much of the population of southern and eastern <entity_10>, as well as neighboring Indiana. The Union response was not long in coming, as Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, commanding the Department of the <entity_10>, ordered out all available troops, as well as sending several Union Navy gunboats steaming up the <entity_10> River to contest any Confederate attempt to reach Kentucky or <entity_5> and safety. On July 18, Morgan, having split his column earlier, led his reunited force towards Middleport, <entity_10>, a quiet river town <entity_11> the Eight Mile Island Ford, where Morgan intended to cross into <entity_5>. Arriving <entity_11> <entity_3> and the nearby tiny hamlet of <entity_8>, <entity_10>, towards evening on July 18, Morgan found that the ford was blocked by several hundred local militia ensconced behind hastily thrown up earthworks. Naumkeag patrolled from Point Pleasant, <entity_5> to Eight Mile Island zone and Springfield guarded from Pomeroy, <entity_10> towards Letart Islands. Victory's cannon balls have been found along Leading Creek, <entity_10>, its patrol from Middleport, <entity_10> to Eight Mile Island along the <entity_5> river bank. On the foggy morning of <entity_6>, two Federal brigades under August Kautz and Henry M. Judah finally caught up with Morgan and attacked his position on the broad flood plain just north of <entity_8>, nearly encircling the Confederates as another column under James M. Shackelford arrived on the scene. Morgan's beleaguered troops soon headed upstream for the unguarded ford opposite Belleville, <entity_5>, where over 300 men successfully crossed the <entity_10> River to avoid capture, most notably Col. Adam "Stovepipe" Johnson and famed telegrapher George Ellsworth. Comparatively little changed on the <entity_3> battlefield in the first century after the fighting; the only substantial difference was the placement of a stone obelisk marking the <entity_9>.
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