Anderson’s Cross Roads

On October 2, Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler led a Confederate raiding party of 1300 troopers into the Sequatchie Valley.  At Anderson’s Cross Roads on Walden Ridge, they encountered a Union supply wagon train 10 miles long containing 800-1,000 wagons.  Over the course of an 8-hour engagement, Wheeler’s force captured 800 mules and destroyed hundreds of the wagons.  Col. Ed McCook and the Union 1st Cavalry Division subsequently caught up with the Confederates and in the attack that followed managed to recapture most of the mules and some of the wagons.