Battle of Augusta (1862)

Battle of Augusta
Part of the Western Theater of the American Civil War
View of Augusta from Hillside Cemetery
Date September 27, 1862 (1862-09-27) Location Augusta, Kentucky 38°46.219′N 84°00.459′W / 38.770317°N 84.007650°W / 38.770317; -84.007650 Result Confederate victory
Belligerents
United States	Confederate States
Commanders and leaders
J. Taylor Bradford	Basil W. Duke
Units involved
Home Guard (Union)	Second Kentucky Cavalry (Morgan's Cavalry Brigade Confederate Army of Kentucky)
Strength
150	450
Casualties and losses
12 killed 3 wounded 125 prisoners	21 killed 18 wounded

The Battle of Augusta was an engagement during the American Civil War that took place on September 27, 1862, in Augusta, Kentucky, between the Bracken County Home Guard (Union) and the Confederate Second Kentucky Cavalry Regiment under command of Colonel Basil W. Duke, a brother-in-law of John H. Morgan. The skirmish resulted in a victory for the Confederacy but the number of Confederate casualties and lack of ammunition for his artillery caused Colonel Duke to abandon plans to cross over the Ohio River into Ohio. A result of the fighting was that twenty buildings were set on fire and destroyed.