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On May 6, 1862, Col. Thomas Claiborne's Sixth Confederate Cavalry attacked and destroyed three companies of the Fifth Iowa Cavalry at Lockridge Mill about 1 mile north on the North Fork of the Obion River. The Fifth Iowa Cavalry was under the command of Major Carl Schaffer de Boernstein. Major Boernstein was mortally wounded and died the next day.
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