Union View

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

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 proved to be an important Union victory. In…