Wild Cat Stampede

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Wild Cat Stampede The nickname for the panicked Union retreat from Wild Cat Mountain in Eastern Kentucky by the First Brigade of the Army of Ohio, commanded by Brigadier General Albin Schoepf. On October 21, 1861, his troops had temporarily pushed a Tennessee brigade of some 4000 men led by Brigadier General Felix Zollicoffer into the Cumberland gap before the military reversal occurred.

From The Language of the Civil War by John D. Wright page 325.
 
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