On September 29, 1861 a Union force consisting of a detail of the 12th Kentucky Infantry attacked approximately 100 Confederate troops encamped at Travisville, Tennessee killing four and capturing four more as prisoners. The skirmish is considered to be the first combat of the Civil War in Tennessee.
Shelbyville
On June 27, 1863, Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg’s army was withdrawing from the vicinity of fortified Shelbyville and concentrating at