Union View

ID: 1599
This file appears in: War on the Big Sandy

The view from the Union Charge area 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…