Brigadier General John Hunt Morgan and about 600 Confederates rode into Hemlock on July 22, 1863, from Snow Creek to the southwest and stopped at the Benjamin Sanders Farm for food and water for their horses. A family story says one of Morgan’s cavalrymen asked for a blanket to cover his horse’s saddle sores, and Susannah Sanders, whose three sons were serving in the Union army and who hoped a southern woman might help them if they were in need, gave the young trooper her best quilt. As Morgan’s men departed, they took the family horses, but Benjamin Sanders followed the Confederates to their surrender site a week later and recovered his horses. Morgan and his raiders then continued east, emptying kitchens and stables along the way, and reached Millertown just west of present-day Corning, where they looted stores, “confiscated” whiskey, and rested until about 5 pm. Pursuing Union forces under Brigadier General James M. Shackelford arrived later that evening and spent the night.