In an attempt to disrupt shipping on Cumberland River two brigades of Confederate cavalry commanded by Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler attacked the Union garrison at Fort Donelson on February 3, 1864. Wheeler withdrew following heavy losses and lack of ammunition.
Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, commander of the Department of the Ohio, undertook an expedition into East Tennessee to clear the
On October 6, 1862 Union forces under Brig. Gen. John Palmer and Col. John F. Miller engaged Confederate cavalry commanded by Brig.
