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unusual facts about Battery Rock


Caseyville, Kentucky

After the Confederates seized a Union steamboat, Union troops at Battery Rock entered into a standoff with the troops at Caseyville.



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Cave-In-Rock, Illinois

Duff was living upriver a few miles, either at Battery Rock or across the Ohio River at what would become Caseyville, Kentucky, when in 1797, Samuel Mason moved his base of operations from Diamond Island and Red Banks to the cave and made it the home of river pirates.