Morgan and Johnson

Union Brigadier General Richard W. Johnson brought about 640 cavalrymen from McMinnville and found Morgan holding Gallatin, where the 5th Kentucky broke in its charge. Learning that another Confederate force was coming up behind him, Johnson sent a flag of truce, ordered a retreat toward Cairo, and then decided to surrender. Lieutenant Colonel Stewart refused to go along, cut his way out with the 2nd Indiana and reached Nashville the next morning. Johnson reported 30 killed, 50 wounded and 75 missing.

What the plaque says

Morgan and Johnson August 20, 1862 Moving east along this road, Col. John H. Morgan, with the 2nd Kentucky Cavalry and attachments, met Brig. Gen. R.W. Johnson's task force of the 2nd Ind. Cavalry, 4th and 5th Kentucky Cavalry and 7th Pa. Cavalry. In a fight which covered about seven miles and lasted four hours, the Federals were defeated: the commander and about 175 men were captured. Morgan moved to Hartsville.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Wynnewood State Historic Site — 0.7 mi
  A National Historic Landmark log inn at the Bledsoe's Lick springs, beside a Mississippian mound center and tied to the domestic slave trade.
• Andrew Jackson's Hermitage — 21 mi
  Andrew Jackson's cotton plantation east of Nashville, where visitors can walk to the quarters, Alfred's Cabin and the Enslaved Cemetery as well as the mansion.
• Red Boiling Springs — 27 mi
  A Macon County spa town built around red sulphur springs, with five kinds of mineral water, red-painted pumps and the surviving hotels of a resort that once held more than a dozen.

More markers nearby

• General William Hall — 0.4 mi
• Wynnewood — 0.7 mi
• First Settlers in Middle Tennessee — 0.7 mi
• William Brimage Bate — 0.7 mi