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James D. Porter, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 7.1, Tennessee (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Chapter 12: (search)
ommand of Brig.-Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis, consisting of 3,300 cavalry under Brig.-Gen. B. H. Grierson, 5,000 infantry under Colonel McMillen, Ninety-fifth Ohio, and 16 pieces of artillery. General Washburn stated that the force sent out was in complete order and consisted of some of our best troops. The expedition was provided with eighteen days rations, the supply train consisted of 181 wagons, which, with the regimental wagons, made up a train of 250. The troops left the railroad on the 2d of June and reached Brice's cross-roads, a distance of 60 miles, on the 10th; but the return trip was made in one day and two nights. General Forrest met and fought Sturgis with his entire available force, numbering 3,500 officers and men of all arms. In the early morning of the 10th, the Confederate commander, reaching Brice's cross-roads, formed the commands of Colonels Lyon, Rucker and Johnson, and attacked Grierson's cavalry, driving it back for some distance. A hot skirmish with the enem