Welcome everyone to Cumberland Gap National Historical Park and the Civil War 160th in 60.
In August of 1863, Union General Ambrose Burnside, fresh off his disaster at Fredericksburg
the year previous, would launch a five-pronged attack through the mountains of Eastern Kentucky into East Tennessee.
On September 3rd, he would capture Knoxville, Tennessee,
but Cumberland Gap was the last holdout with 2,000 Confederate soldiers and 16 forts.
He would march north and completely encircle the Cumberland Gap and personally ask for its surrender
on September 9th, 1863, which he would get. 00:00:40.11 --> Many of those soldiers that captured the Cumberlang Gap passed through Camp Nelson, Kentucky, just south of Lexington.