General Ormsby Mitchel

ID: 1661
This file appears in: A Civil War Defense Line

General Mitchel secured the Union defense line in Bowling Green after Confederates evacuated in February 1862. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.

This file appears in: A Civil War Defense Line

By McKenzie Martin
Historical Marker #538 in Warren County commemorates the Union capture of Bowling Green on February 14, 1862. On September 18, 1861, Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner and nearly five…