On December 7, 1862, at Hartsville, a Federal brigade of 2,400 men encamped on the banks of the Cumberland River southwest of town was attacked at dawn by CSA Colonel John Hunt Morgan and 1,300 men from Kentucky and Tennessee infantry, cavalry, and Cobb's Kentucky Battery. During the previous night, Morgan and his men had crossed the swollen Cumberland in zero degree weather and four inches of snow. In the battle, Hartsvillian James Dearing Bennett and his 9th Tennessee Cavalry went into town to cut off escape routes and captured 450 prisoners. Morgan's force routed the Federals, won a complete victory, gathered Federal supplies, and recrossed the icy Cumberland with prisoners as 4,000 Federal troops arrived from Castalian Springs too late to rescue their comrades. News spread across the North and South that Morgan had captured an entire brigade with very little loss, and later that week in Murfreesboro he was promoted to Brigadier General by CSA President Jefferson Davis. Federal casualties were 59 killed, 204 wounded, and 1,834 captured; Southern losses were 21 killed, 104 wounded, and 14 missing, with 12 more later dying of their wounds.