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Day’s Gap Battlefield

Streight's Raid

The largest battle and only Union victory in Colonel Abel Streight’s ill-fated raid through Alabama, the Battle of Day’s Gap saw the men under Streight’s command face off a surprise attack from Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest. Though the Union men successfully repulsed Forrest’s surprise attack on their rear guard, the battle sparked a series of small skirmishes that drove them deeper into hostile territory, until, hungry and fatigued, they surrendered to the rebels.

Preservation

The American Battlefield Trust and our members have saved more than 82 acres at Day’s Gap Battlefield.

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Related Battles

Cullman County, AL | April 30, 1863
Result: Union Victory
Estimated Casualties
88
Union
23
Confed.
65