On October 6, 1862 Union forces under Brig. Gen. John Palmer and Col. John F. Miller engaged Confederate cavalry commanded by Brig. Gen. Nathan Forrest along the Murfreesboro turnpike. In the skirmish that followed the Union cavalry captured 175 prisoners, pieces of artillery and quartermaster supplies.
Blountville
Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, commander of the Department of the Ohio, undertook an expedition into East Tennessee to clear the