Town Creek
April 27-28, 1863
Forrest joins Roddey’s cavalrymen as they fall back fighting to Town Creek. An artillery duel begins along the creek next morning, ending when Union Gen. Grenville M. Dodge’s troops
Grenville M. Dodge: Early in the Civil War, Dodge raised the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry and the Second Iowa Artillery Battery. He was quickly made a brigade commander and commanded the garrison at Rolla, MO, one of Gen. Fremont’s forward outposts in southern Missouri. There, he gave his superiors a taste for what was to come by organizing an aggressive scouting operation in his area.
cross the railroad bridge and Forrest’s men retreat eastward towards Jonesborough.
Editor: Town Creek is a town in Lawrence County, Alabama. was established in the first half of the 19th century, and was originally known as “Jonesboro” after an early settler, William Jones. It incorporated in 1875.