Battle of Augusta (1862)

Battle of Augusta
Part of the Western Theater of the American Civil War

View of Augusta from Hillside Cemetery
DateSeptember 27, 1862 (1862-09-27)
Location38°46.219′N 84°00.459′W / 38.770317°N 84.007650°W / 38.770317; -84.007650
Result Confederate victory
Belligerents
 United States  Confederate States
Commanders and leaders
J. Taylor Bradford Basil W. Duke
Units involved
Home Guard (Union) Second Kentucky Cavalry (Morgan's Cavalry Brigade Confederate Army of Kentucky)
Strength
150 450
Casualties and losses
12 killed
3 wounded
125 prisoners
21 killed
18 wounded

The Battle of Augusta was an engagement during the American Civil War that took place on September 27, 1862, in Augusta, Kentucky, between the Bracken County Home Guard (Union) and the Confederate Second Kentucky Cavalry Regiment under command of Colonel Basil W. Duke, a brother-in-law of John H. Morgan. The skirmish resulted in a victory for the Confederacy but the number of Confederate casualties and lack of ammunition for his artillery caused Colonel Duke to abandon plans to cross over the Ohio River into Ohio. A result of the fighting was that twenty buildings were set on fire and destroyed.