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Camp Gilbert Boyle at this location? 2012-01-22 - Parrott Ave & Campbellsville Street, Columbia, KY - Photo by Ed Waggener. From information readers are sending us Camp Boyle - mentioned in Derek Coomer's history positing that the real pivotal battle of the Civil War was fought in South Central Kentucky and that Columbia played a major role in strategic Union Army placement - was likely right here, on what today constitutes the Barbee lands, north of Russell Creek. Readers base the location on information derived from Betty Jane Gorin's great Civil War Book, "Morgan is Coming." The other Adair County Union encampment Derek Coomer mentions, Camp Billy Williams, is at a location well established in general historical scholarship, on Dunnville Road in Adair County. Those sending the supporting evidence for Camp Boyle suggest that it began on the north bank of Russell Creek, but none have yet suggested the boundaries, just that it was on fairly level ground. Permalink | Comments?

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