On July 31, 1864, at the Battle of Sunshine Church, nineteen miles northeast of Macon, Maj. Gen. Geo. Stoneman of the United States surrendered with 600 men to Brig. Gen. Alfred Iverson, Jr., of the Confederacy after covering the escape of Adams’ and Capron’s brigades of his cavalry command. Both brigades retreated by way of Athens intending to resupply there, but early on August 2 they were stopped at the river bridge south of Athens by Home Guard units with artillery. Unable to cross, they turned west, with Capron taking the Hog Mountain road to Jug Tavern, now Winder, and Adams taking roads farther north that brought him to Union lines near Marietta without further loss. Late that night Capron halted briefly at Jug Tavern to feed and water his horses, then moved to King’s Tanyard, about 300 yards east, where his exhausted command rested for two hours. A large body of runaway negroes who had followed the column crowded between the rear pickets and the main body. Before dawn on August 3, Williams’ Kentucky brigade of the Confederacy, pursuing from Sunshine Church, charged through Capron’s pickets and into the panic-stricken negroes, driving and scattering everything before them. Thrown into confusion, Capron’s men soon gave way and stampeded toward Mulberry River. About 430 were captured and sent to Athens, while others escaped into the woods. Capron himself, with six men, reached Marietta four days later on foot. Also called the Battle of Jug Tavern, this engagement was the final event of the Federal fiasco known as the Stoneman Raid.