Near this location on December 29, 1864, the Third Regiment of North Carolina Mounted Infantry under Colonel George W. Kirk, engaged about 400 Confederate Infantry and Cavalry under Lt. Colonel James A. Keith at Red Banks of the Nolichucky. Seventy-three Confederates were killed and 32 officers and privates were captured. The Union forces sustained only three wounded men.
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