On November 11, 1863 a Confederate force led by the 27th Battalion Virginia Cavalry captured 100 prisoners at Rogersville. Near Big Creek the 36th Battalion Virginia Cavalry, 8th Virginia Cavalry and the 21st Virginia Cavalry also engaged Union forces capturing and 294 prisoners along with wagons and ambulances.
Franklin (1862)
Colonel Lewis Zahm's Union cavalry brigade was ordered to move against a small Confederate cavalry force at Franklin led by Colonel Baxter