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| rdfs:comment | - The Battle of Lucas Bend took place on January 11, 1862 near Lucas Bend, four miles north of Columbus on Mississippi River in Kentucky as it lay at the time of the American Civil War. In the network of the Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio rivers, the Union river gunboats under Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote and General Ulysses S. Grant sought to infiltrate and attack the Confederate positions in Tennessee. On the day of the battle, the Union ironclads Essex and St Louis, transporting troops down the Mississippi in fog, engaged the Confederate timberclad warships General Polk, Ivy and Jackson towing the gun platform New Orleans at a curve known as Lucas Bend in Kentucky. The Essex, under Commander David D. Porter, and the St Louis forced the Confederate ships to fall back after an hour of sk
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| Strength | - Three timberclad gunboats
* CSS Jackson
* CSS Ivy
* CSS General Polk
One floating battery
* CSS New Orleans
One on-shore battery at Columbus
- Two ironclad gunboats
* USS Essex
* USS St Louis
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| Commander | - Admiral Andrew Hull Foote
- Cmdr. David D. Porter
- Cmdr. Rodger
- Flag Officer G. N. Hollins
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| Result | - Inconclusive, Confederate ships escape.
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| combatant | - United States
- CSA (Confederacy)
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| Place | - Carlisle County, Kentucky
- Lucas Bend, Mississippi River,
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| Quote | - "Indeed, this watery skirmish was the first major action fought against Confederate fleet units in which the timberclads were not engaged. It marked a passing of the torch, so to speak. From this time on, Cmdr. Rodgers' original three warriors – now more often called the 'old wooden gunboats' – were regarded not as the major flotilla elements, but as supporting vessels to an expanding and more heavily armoured naval force."
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| abstract | - The Battle of Lucas Bend took place on January 11, 1862 near Lucas Bend, four miles north of Columbus on Mississippi River in Kentucky as it lay at the time of the American Civil War. In the network of the Mississippi, Tennessee and Ohio rivers, the Union river gunboats under Flag Officer Andrew Hull Foote and General Ulysses S. Grant sought to infiltrate and attack the Confederate positions in Tennessee. On the day of the battle, the Union ironclads Essex and St Louis, transporting troops down the Mississippi in fog, engaged the Confederate timberclad warships General Polk, Ivy and Jackson towing the gun platform New Orleans at a curve known as Lucas Bend in Kentucky. The Essex, under Commander David D. Porter, and the St Louis forced the Confederate ships to fall back after an hour of skirmishing during which the Union commander was wounded. They retreated to the safety of a nearby Confederate battery at Columbus, where the Union vessels could not follow. The battle marked one of the first occasions where timberclad warships were convincingly outclassed by the newer ironclad warships, and it would be one of the last naval engagements to see timberclad warships perform a major role.
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