On October 23, 1864, Maj. Gen. John S. Marmaduke commanded a cavalry division of 2,700 Confederates opposing 2,500 Union cavalrymen under Maj. Gen. Alfred Pleasonton. On the Union left, Col. Edward F. Winslow's brigade of 1,100 men advanced with John F. Philips' brigade of 1,400 men attacking on the right south of the Byram's Ford Road. At 10 a.m., Winslow ordered both brigades to move up the hill and attack, beginning more than an hour of close fighting in which Confederate sharpshooters fired from the ground and treetops. During the charge, Winslow was severely wounded in the left leg and, after continuing forward as long as he could, turned command of the brigade over to Lt. Col. Frederick W. Benteen of the 10th Missouri Cavalry. As Confederate ammunition ran low, Marmaduke ordered a withdrawal, and the Union victory on this part of the battlefield was complete. Two days later, on October 25, Benteen led the brigade to victory over Marmaduke's Confederates at the Battle of Mine Creek. After the war, Benteen entered the regular U.S. Army as a captain in the 7th U.S. Cavalry and commanded a battalion during Custer's Little Bighorn Expedition in 1876.