BA002767

La Fayette, Tennessee

Dec. 27, 1863

Event ID # BA 002767

Federal Troops Engaged: Detachments, 89th Indiana and 117th Illinois Infantry and 9th Illinois Cavalry.

Learning that the enemy was moving westward, Brig.- Gen. B. H. Grierson, commanding at La Grange, ordered Col. William H. Morgan, commanding the 3rd brigade, cavalry division, 16th army corps, then stationed at Grand Junction, to embark his troops and move to La Fayette. Maj. Samuel Henry, with detachments of the 89th Indiana and 117th Ill., was sent from Moscow to hold Grisson's bridge until the arrival of Morgan. The latter was delayed in getting started, and Henry's skirmishers were already engaged with the Confederates when he arrived at the bridge. The skirmishers were kept out and Morgan's command disembarked and deployed, but so much time was consumed in getting the brigade into order that Henry's force and 300 men of the 9th Ill. cavalry, who had marched by wagon road from La Grange, drove the Confederates into and through La Fayette before Morgan could become engaged.

The casualties were not reported.