Gen Judson Kilpatrick |
The Battle
of Buck Head Creek was fought November 28th 1864, a part of the
March to the Sea.
Confederate
Major General Joseph Wheeler caught up with two Union regiments on November 26th
1864, and attacked their camp. This kept
Union Brigadier General H Judson Kilpatrick from destroying a railroad trestle
over the Briar Creek. Kilpatrick then
found out the Union prisoners being held at Camp Lawton that he was supposed to
release, had been moved, and so he began a move of troops to meet up with Union
Major General William T Sherman.
Kilpatrick’s
cavalry made camp on November 27th 1864 near Buck Head Creek. Early the next morning November 28th
1864 Wheeler came up on the camp, almost captured Kilpatrick, driving the Union
cavalry across Buck Head Creek. The 5th
Ohio Cavalry, commanded by Colonel Thomas T Heath fought a rearguard action
with the support of two pieces of artillery.
They raked Wheeler’s men with canister, and then burned the bridge they
had crossed on. Wheeler’s cavalry
crossed the river, pursuing the Union troopers to Reynolds’ Plantation, where
they found the Union soldiers behind barricades. Wheeler’s men retired from the field, and
Kilpatrick continued the join up with Sherman.
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