BGuthrie Photos: KY -- Richmond -- Blue Grass Army Depot (Richmond KY Battlefield)

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. BGARMY_100604_52.JPG: Manson's First Line: (Civil War Discovery Trail sign) Gen. Mahlon D. Manson marched south along the Old State Road (US 421) from Richmond seeking the Confederate army. As he topped the hill where Mt. Zion Church stands he began to deploy his army. Using the road as his guide, he deployed his infantry and artillery, alternating his infantry regiments with his artillery. The west end of the Union line, the Union right, was held by the 69th Indiana, which was positioned west of Mt. Zion church. To their east, and just east of the road, was Lt. Byron D. Paddock's section of Battery D 1st Michigan Artillery. To their east was the 55th Indiana, then Lt. Edwin O. Lanphere of Battery G 1st Michigan Artillery. On the far east end of the line, the 16th Indiana held the Union left. The 71st Indiana was held in reserve so that if a portion of the line was threatened the 71st or a portion of it could be rushed to that area. Manson was ordered not to risk a general engagement unless he was sure of success. This was sage advice since Manson's brigade was green. The 55th Indiana was the veteran of the group, having been mustered in June 16, just over two months earlier. the other three regiments were all mustered in late August 1862. Even the artillery was improvised; guns and officers were scraped together for Manson's command. While Manson had managed to get his brigade into a textbook line of battle, he still had to engage in battle against a division of veterans. Civil War battles often played out in the manner prescribed by field manuals for maneuvering and fighting soldiers, such as Rifle and Light Infantry Tactics: For The Exercise And Maneuvers Of Troops When Acting As Light Infantry Or Riflemen, by Brevet Lieut. Col. W.J. Hardee, more commonly referred to as Hardee's Tactics. All of the officers who were trained at West Point were well versed in these rules, as were many of the amateurs who served in the militia. Soldiers generally arrived at a battlefield in a column, that is, a line of four men across. In order to fight the battle the man were then deployed in line of battle. Imagine a vertical line becoming horizontal, in a maneuver carried out in a rigidly prescribed way with thousands of men.
2. BGARMY_100604_56.JPG: The Confederates Crush The Union Left: (Civil War Discovery Trail sign) On August 30, 1862, the end of the Union line was anchored on the small knoll overlooking the wooded ravine on its left. From there, the line stretched to the right across US 421. It ended just south of Mt. Zion Church, the brick building on the far side of the road. Manson's Fragile Union Line: General Mahlon Manson, the Union commander, saw the Confederates advancing toward the left end of his line. He kept shifting his line east all morning, hoping to counter an expected attack. He did not see the other Confederate force hidden by the ravine west of the road. Two Confederate Assaults: The first Confederate assault came from the ravine and hit the Union left, halting near the base of the knoll. As the main Confederate advance began, a second assault was initiated by the Tennessee troops massed in the ravine. The hidden Confederates emerged from the ravine, "howling like the wind" and smashed the stunned and ill-trained Indiana defenders. This attack came just as the weakly held Union flank across the road was disintegrating under the pressure of another Confederate flank attack. The Union Line Breaks and Runs: These coordinated attacks pushed both ends of the Union line toward the middle. The pressure was too much for the inexperienced Union soldiers. After a very brief stand they fled north in confusion. The second Union column under General Charles Cruft was caught in a whirlwind. Fleeing soldiers swept over Cruft's men and they, too, were swept away by the unstoppable Confederate juggernaut. On a small knoll about 125 yards to your southeast, Confederate infantry, hidden by the adjacent ravine to your left, attacked the left flank and rear of the Union line. The Confederates routed the Union soldiers, who retreated in disorder toward Rogersville.
Wikipedia Description: Blue Grass Army Depot
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Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) is a U.S. Army conventional munitions and chemical weapon storage facility located in east central Kentucky, southeast of the cities of Lexington and Richmond, Kentucky, operated by the United States Army. The 14,494-acre (58.66 km2) site, composed mainly of open fields and wooded areas, is used for munitions storage, repair of general supplies, and the disposal of munitions. The installation is used for the storage of conventional explosive munitions as well as assembled chemical weapons. The depot primarily is involved in industrial and related activities associated with the storage and maintenance of conventional and chemical munitions.

The tenant organization, Blue Grass Chemical Activity, is responsible for the chemical weapons stored at BGAD. BGCA is part of the Army's Chemical Materiels Activity, headquartered in Edgewood, Maryland. The demilitarization of the chemical weapons is the responsibility of a third organization, ACWA.

BGAD provides munitions, chemical defense equipment, and ammunition support to the joint warfighter. It is the Department of Defense’s primary center for surveillance, receipt, storage, issue, testing and minor repair for the Chemical Defense Equipment Program. BGAD maintains and supports CDE stocks for deploying units and homeland defense forces, and is a training site for reserve component and other deploying units.

Capabilities:

Capabilities include: industrial services support; ammunition maintenance, renovation, disassembly and demilitarization; thermal arc coating for Air Force bombs; water washout facility with flaker belt; Molten Salt Research and Development Facility; ultrasonic testing for mortar ammunition; Chemical Material Surveillance Program; quality assurance and joint logistics support; and ammunition life cycle management.

History:

BGAD was established in 1941 and began operations in 1942 as an ammunition and general supply storage depot. In 1964, it merged with the Lexington Signal Depot and became Lexington-Blue Grass Army Depot. The Lexington facility was selected for closure under BRAC; after it closed in September 1999, the remaining facility received its current designation.
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