On 26 Apr 1863, a Union raiding party of 1500, including the 51st and 73rd IN, 3rd OH, 18th IL, and local men from two companies of the 1st AL Calvary, left Tuscumbia for Russellville under Col. Abel Streight with the objective of cutting Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg's railroad supply lines at Rome, GA. As a diversion, Gen. G.M. Dodge moved some 8000 Union troops into northern Lawrence County to occupy the attention of Gen. Nathan B. Forrest, allowing Streight to march from Russellville to Mt. Hope on 27 Apr. As Dodge retreated toward Corinth, MS, Forrest was informed of Streight's movements, and on the next day Streight confiscated some 200 mules and horses before arriving in Moulton after sunset. Leaving Moulton at 1:00 a.m. on 29 Apr, the raiders rode along this old road while Forrest began to pursue them. The next morning at Day's Gap, Forrest engaged them and fought to the mountaintop where Streight had laid an ambush that cost Forrest some 40 men. After a series of skirmishes, with supplies dwindling and believing his forces outnumbered, Streight surrendered to Forrest's 500 men on 3 May 1863 in Cherokee County, AL, a few miles from Rome, GA.