Greetings from Manassas National Battlefield Park!
My name is Anthony, and welcome to another installment of Civil War 160th in 60.
Ambrose Everett Burnside's rise that would bring him to Kentucky, into Camp Nelson,
started here on the 21st of July 1861.
Colonel Burnside and his soldiers from Rhode Island, New York, and New Hampshire,
over the course of two hours of fighting,
in the late morning of July 21st, 1861,
but forced Confederate soldiers off of Matthew's Hill in retreat toward Henry Hill.
Burnside's men would not see combat the remainder of that day
as they headed to the rear to regroup and recuperate.
Within weeks, now, General Burnside relocated to the North Carolina coast,
where he and his men were successful in closing that state off
to Confederate usage for the remainder of the war.
Thank you for watching, and tune in for additional installments of this series
to learn more about how war came to Kentucky.