Ivy Mountain in Big Sandy Valley, Kentucky was the site of an early campaign of the American Civil War. Pursuant to an early Union victory at a skirmish at Camp Wildcat in Rockdale County, Union General William T Sherman ordered Union forces under the command of William “Bull” Nelson to confront the enemy in an attempt to take advantage and disrupt Confederate combatant movements in eastern Kentucky.
Although Confederate Colonel John S. Williams commanded a dominant larger force at Pikeville, the battle was fought against Nelson by an ill-equipped and insubstantially manned Confederate detachment led by Captain Andrew Jackson May. Fought on November 8, 1861, the engagement lasted a less than exorbitant hour and a half. After May retreated from Nelson’s advance, the Confederates made a defiant stand at the foot of Ivy Mountain In a tactical move, Nelson divided his men and outflanked the errant Confederate troops, the culminant of that forcing them to withdraw.
There may not be a dormant mountain here but you will find some irritant ivy to battle with.
