Columbus supply base
Supply base, Columbus, Kentucky.
- Side
- Union
- Kind
- Supply base
- Where
- Columbus, Kentucky
- Years
- 1862-1865
- Today
- State historic site
COLUMBUS SUPPLY BASE
Columbus, the northernmost point of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, was fortified by Confederates on its Mississippi River bluffs in 1861. Union forces occupied it on March 3, 1862, and used it as a supply base and garrison for the rest of the war.
Then
Columbus, the northernmost point of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, was fortified by Confederates on its Mississippi River bluffs in 1861. Union forces occupied it on March 3, 1862, after the Confederate evacuation, and used it as a supply base and garrison for the rest of the war.
Now
State historic site
Columbus-Belmont State Park on the bluff commemorates the fortifications and the Battle of Belmont.
The nearest railroad in service today is a line owned by CN, about 5 miles away.
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