Union General Ebenezer Dumont pursued Colonel John Hunt Morgan's Confederate cavalry with a force from the Nashville Garrison.

[6] A 15-mile running battle ensued in which the Confederates were forced to retreat.

During the fighting Confederate sympathizers in the town fired upon the Union Cavalry.

[7] Many of the remaining Confederates barricaded within the buildings surrendered when Dumont threatened to set the town on fire.

Colonels Smith and Wolford of the Union forces were wounded.