After skirmishing with Confederate forces at Blue Springs, a brigade of Union cavalry with the Department of the Ohio attacked the advance column of Brig. Gen. Alfred Jackson’s brigade on October 10, 1863 near Henderson’s Mill. A counter attack by Jackson’s forces forced the Federal cavalry back towards Kingsport.
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Confederate Gen. William Bate’s division engaged men of the 115 th Ohio Infantry stationed in Blockhouse No. 7 protecting the Nashville and