Stewarts Creek Bridge
On December 27, 1862 four companies of the 4th Michigan Cavalry engaged Confederate forces at Stewarts Creek Bridge on the
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December 26, 1862
Williamson
On December 26, 1862 Colonel Lewis Zahm’s Union cavalry brigade attacked a small Confederate cavalry force led by Colonel Baxter Smith. Zahm’s goal was to clear out Franklin and protect the right flank of the Union army’s march from Nashville to Murfreesboro. Zahm made initial contact with Confederate pickets at 3 p.m. around two miles from Franklin forcing Smith’s men back to town. The major fighting appears to have occurred about ½ miles north of town at the Harpeth River crossing and in town. Zahm captured the town and pursued Smith’s men for about two miles. Union forces left Franklin that night, and it was reoccupied by Confederates by the next day.
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