After skirmishing with Confederate forces at Blue Springs, a brigade of Union cavalry with the Department of the Ohio attacked the advance column of Brig. Gen. Alfred Jackson’s brigade on October 10, 1863 near Henderson’s Mill. A counter attack by Jackson’s forces forced the Federal cavalry back towards Kingsport.
Anderson’s Cross Roads
On October 2, Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler led a Confederate raiding party of 1300 troopers into the Sequatchie Valley. At