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| Battle of Kessler's Cross Lanes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the American Civil War | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 United States (Union) |
 CSA (Confederacy) | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| Erastus Tyler | John B. Floyd | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| Approximately 1,000 men | 2,000 men[1][better source needed] | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
|
15 killed 20 wounded 38 captured[2] | 40 | ||||||
The Battle of Kessler's Cross Lanes, also known as the Battle of Cross Lanes, took place on August 26, 1861 in Nicholas County, Virginia (now West Virginia) as part of the Western Virginia Campaign during the American Civil War.[3]
- ^ Rushmore G. Horton (1867). A youth's history of the great Civil War in the United States from 1861 to 1865. Van Evrie, Horton & Co. p. 150.
- ^ Stan Cohen (August 1982). The Civil War in West Virginia: a pictorial history. Pictorial Histories Pub. Co. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-933126-17-6. Retrieved 20 January 2013.
- ^ "Kessler's Cross Lanes". CWSAC Battle Summaries. National Park Service. Retrieved January 16, 2017.