On December 28, 1863 Confederate cavalry commanded by Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler attacked a Union wagon train on the Hiwassee River bridge at Charleston, Tennessee. The 2nd Missouri Infantry (Col. Bernard Leibold) and a brigade of cavalry commanded by Col. Eli Long successfully defended the train and routed Wheeler’s cavalry.
Franklin-Stones River Campaign
On December 26, 1862 Colonel Lewis Zahm’s Union cavalry brigade attacked a small Confederate cavalry force led by Colonel Baxter Smith. Zahm’s