Fix Bayonets - Charge!

Union Colonel Robert McCook, commanding the Union 3rd Brigade, ordered one of the few successful bayonet charges of the Civil War. Across the road, men of the 9th Ohio formed beside troops of the 10th Indiana, and with loud cheering this regiment of German-Americans, the only regiment with battle experience, began a bayonet charge that flanked the Confederate left toward the high hill in the distance. The sustained charge of more than a mile created panic among Confederate troops and began a complete rout of the Confederate Army, bringing the battle to a close. Although the area is an open field today, it was wooded during the battle, and most of the charge went through woods and underbrush.

Kentucky · United States