The army of Union colonel Albert S. Hall won against the cavalry division of Confederate brigadier general John Hunt Morgan.

During the American Civil War, the Union Army in Tennessee lost the Battle of Thompson's Station on March 5, 1863.

On March 18, Union colonel Albert S. Hall left Murfreesboro, and went northeast on a reconnaissance mission with 1,300 men.

[1] He was supposed to find Confederate brigadier general John Hunt Morgan, whose army had been raiding Tennessee.

[1] Hall eventually started returning to Murfreesboro, and on March 20, he met Morgan's cavalry division of around 3,500 men.