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.
Shelbyville
On June 27, 1863, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg’s army was withdrawing from the vicinity of fortified Shelbyville and concentrating at