January 27, 1864---The Battle of Fair Garden, Tennessee

JANUARY 27, 1864:   

The Battle of Fair Garden, Tennessee. After maintaining control of some Tennessee territory after the Battle of Dandridge on the 17^th, General James Longstreet had been sending out pickets in the region to extend his toehold into a bridgehead. On this day, Confederate and Union cavalry forces met on the road near Fair Garden. The battle became a classic (and bloody) 19^th Century sabre charge on horseback, in which the North lost 100 men and the South 165. The Federals chased the Confederates nearly out of the State, but the Union cavalry commander broke off the attack when he came within sight of Longstreet’s large main body.