Sill's report refers to a scouting party the Union troops encountered about 300 yards downstream from the Pikeville courthouse. The Rebs were camped at the courthouse. The Shelby Road which is referenced was actually the Mount Sterling-Pound Gap road, also called the State Road, which ran from Pikeville, up Shelby and Ekhorn creeks, then to Pound Gap. The fight Sill reported occurred at the mouth of what is today called Ferguson's Creek, opposite the Big Sandy River from Pikeville. I have had Green's account for years and have studied it again and again, and am sure he was referencing the fight at Ivy Mountain on 11/8/61. In the records I have found, Sill's force, which was making its way up Johns Creek toward Pikeville, encountered the enemy on two occasions. The skirmishes occurred several hours apart along the Johns Creek road. One Reb party was led by Captain Holladay and the other by Captain John Shawhan. A diary, at least one newspaper account, and the ORs account for nothing more serious on the Union side than a considerable loss of sleep during their first night out. On the other hand, Nelson has been accused of neglecting to record the true losses his troops suffered at Ivy Mountain. Green and the othe Morgan County boys were part of Capt. A.J. May's command, Company A of the 5th Kentucky Infantry, CSA, and May was the primary strategist behind the Confederate ambush of Nelson's column at Ivy Creek.
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