From Conservapedia
| Battle of Athens |
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Limestone County, Alabama
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Operations in North Alabama
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9th Illinois Mounted Infantry
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Confederate cavalry, numbering about 600 men, attacked Athens, held by about 100 Union troops, around 4:00 am on the morning of January 26, 1864. After a two-hour battle, the Confederates retreated. Union forces, although greatly outnumbered and without fortifications, repulsed the attackers. (NPS summary)
| Battles of the American Civil War: 1864 |
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| | Eastern Theater | | | | Western Theater | | | | Trans-Mississippi Theater | | | | Lower Seaboard Theater | | | | Naval | |
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