Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Skirmish at Albany, Kentucky


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The result was delete. postdlf (talk) 00:04, 27 July 2015 (UTC)

Skirmish at Albany, Kentucky

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Fails WP:GNG; insignificant event with no significant coverage. Event appeared to have no enduring historical significance, per WP:EVENTCRIT. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:49, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete per nom. Number of troops involved: unknown. Number of casualties: unknown. Lasting significance: none. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:21, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
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 * Keep and merge all small ones into a larger list of "Skirmishes of the American Civil War", keep the name as a redirect. --Richard Arthur Norton (1958- ) (talk) 02:31, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
 * It would be a long list. Long, E. B. The Civil War Day by Day: An Almanac, 1861–1865. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971., p. 719 states that Dyer, 1908 divides the military actions of the Civil War into 29 campaigns, 76 battles, 310 engagements, 46 combats, 1026 actions, 29 assaults, 6,337 skirmishes, 299 operations, 26 sieges, 64 raids, 727 expeditions, 252 reconnaissances, 434 scouts, 639 affairs, 82 occupations and 79 captures. I have looked carefully at Dyer's book and I could find no explanation of how he came up with these names for the various military events of the Civil War. I won't comment again here on the usefulness of the categories of these events for Wikipedia purposes. I will note that I think that 76 is too low a count of "battles." Nonetheless, many of the events in the other categories would probably come closer to being what we might think of as skirmishes and we would probably agree with Dyer on a large majority of his skirmish characterizations. Perhaps small or minor engagements would be a better overall categorization for modern readers. In any event, a list of skirmishes or minor military events would be quite long. Subdivided by states, the lists would still be quite long in some cases. Perhaps they would be interesting if a few details could be added. It would be a big typing job. I actually started a list of the military events in the state that had the most such events, Virginia, and after quite a few hours of typing, I have only completed about half of it and may or may not ever finish it. Donner60 (talk) 06:50, 24 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete All that's known about this battle appears to be that the two sides met and fought. The absence of any information that could be used to determine whether this event was significant to the war can be taken as evidence of its insignificance. Fails WP:EVENTCRIT. ~ RobTalk 04:07, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Delete. The infobox for this two-sentence article gives the commanders as Quincy Gillmore and John Hunt Morgan. On the date of this skirmish, Gillmore had left Kentucky and had returned to his headquarters at Hilton Head. Morgan was a prisoner. The only coverage I could find is in The Union Army; A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal States, 1861–65 &mdash; Records of the Regiments in the Union Army &mdash; Cyclopedia of Battles &mdash; Memoirs of Commanders and Soldiers. Wilmington, NC: Broadfoot Publishing, 1997. First published 1908 by Federal Publishing Company. Vol. 5, p. 25 which states that a detachment of the 23rd Corps killed two guerrillas and wounded three, including Champ Ferguson. It states that a brief official report about this engagement was the only official mention of the affair that could be found. I could not confirm the given details through another source or find any other detail about this engagement or any indication of its place in a campaign or its significance, if any. Donner60 (talk) 06:25, 24 July 2015 (UTC)


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