Cincinnati Civil War Batteries
The reason Morgan and his raiders went through Indiana to Clermont County and around Cincinnati
1861 Civil war Batteries that defended Cincinnati from Confederate attacks.
Most batteries emplaced for the defense of Cincinnati were in the Northern Kentucky counties of Boone, Kenton, and Campbell. These batteries were configured in a southward sweeping arc. Two batteries protecting the city's flanks were located on hills at the west and east sides of Cincinnati. The names of the batteries were:
- Fort Whittlesey battery (now called Fort Thomas)
- Phil Kearney battery
- Shaler battery
- Harrison battery
- Holt battery
- John's hill battery
- McLean battery
- Batteries at the pontoon bridges (crossing the Ohio River at Greenup Street in Covington, and the Licking River at 26th Street
- Larz Anderson battery
- Fort Henry battery
- Burnet battery
- Hatcher battery
- Burbank battery
- Carlisle battery
- Hooper battery
- Rae battery
- Kyle battery
- Fort Wright
- Fort Mitchell
- Fort Perry
- Fort Rich
- Bates battery
- Combs battery
- J. L. Kirby Smith battery
- Ohio batteries:
- Price's Hill battery (defending the western flank)
- Mount Adams battery (defending the eastern flank)