[4][5] By February 5, he crossed into Aiken County where he would engage in battle with Joseph Wheeler's cavalry corps.

His army was stationed at 204 Park Avenue between Benjamin Franklin Cheatham and James Argle Smith's forces.

[4][6] He planned to defeat Kilpatrick by forming his cavalry into a V-shaped formation with skirmishers deployed above it.

Wheeler's plan was prevented from coming to fruition due to a single Confederate soldier who prematurely fired their gun.

In the aftermath of the battle, Wheeler's decision to attack Kilpatrick left the Edisto River, and in turn Columbia, vulnerable.

[4] However general Wheeler states that he had suffered 50 casualties and that he had killed 53 Union soldiers, wounded 270, and captured 172.

[4] To commemorate the battle, a granite monument was erected at the intersection of Richland Avenue and Chesterfield Street.

According to the Southern Cultures journal, the residents of the city possibly reenact this battle as an attempt to score a "symbolic blow against the hated enemy of their ancestors and perhaps, against what they see as their enemies modern counterparts: The Civil Rights Movement, which intervenes in their lives in unwanted (as well as welcome) ways.