Near dawn on May 5, 1862, Colonel John Hunt Morgan’s 800 Confederate cavalry, camped around the Public Square and at Cumberland University on South College Street, were attacked in a torrential rain by General Ebenezer Dumont’s 600 Federal cavalry as they advanced from Murfreesboro. After an hour and a half of charges and countercharges, Morgan and most of his men withdrew on the Rome and Trousdale Ferry Pikes pursued by the Federals. Barricaded in Odd Fellows Hall on West Main Street, 60 to 70 of Morgan’s men fired upon the Federals. Later these Confederates surrendered when Dumont threatened to burn the town. During the attack, Federal losses amounted to 10 killed, 21 wounded, and 5 missing, while Confederate losses amounted to 60 killed and an unknown number of wounded and missing.