Confederate Artillery Position

ID: 1598
This file appears in: War on the Big Sandy
Confederate Artillery Position

View from General Marshall's Artillery Position at the Battle of Middle Creek.
Courtesy of the National Park Service.

This file appears in: War on the Big Sandy

By McKenzie Martin
Historical Marker #608 in Johnson County commemorates arrival of Union troops in Paintsville in January 1862. That month, those soldiers fought in the Battle of Middle Creek in Floyd County, which proved to be an important Union victory. In…