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.
Franklin (1862)
Colonel Lewis Zahm's Union cavalry brigade was ordered to move against a small Confederate cavalry force at Franklin led by Colonel Baxter