By 10:00 a.m. on June 10, 1864, Col. George Waring's Federal cavalry had reached the Cross Roads and deployed on either side of the Baldwyn Road in woods at the western edge of a cleared field one-half mile east of the intersection, after skirmishing farther east with advance Confederate squads. Across a small creek on the opposing hilltop stood Col. Hylan B. Lyon's brigade, soon reinforced on the left by Col. Edmund W. Rucker's brigade, and when Col. William W. Johnson's cavalry arrived on Lyon's right, Forrest used his numerical advantage to launch a series of attacks. Waring reported that the enemy advanced in strong force from the opposite woods and that a heavy engagement followed, with a general frontal assault and then an attack against his left both repulsed. Forrest's third attack, however, broke through the Union line between Waring's right flank and Col. Edward Winslow's left, about 200 yards south of this location. The Union forces then fell back to a new position one quarter mile from the Cross Roads, where, after hand-to-hand fighting forced back Waring's right, he formed a second line that held until the infantry arrived to relieve his fatigued and ammunition-depleted command.