Federal forces to obtain possession without a battle. The enemy were
completely out-maneuvred, and General Morgan had the satisfaction
of occupying this fortress without the loss of any of his command.

In the early part of May, the rebel Colonel John H. Morgan's command
of some five hundred men, in the neighborhood of Pulaski, Tenn.,
captured a wagon train with about four hundred Federal troops,
mostly convalescents going to Columbia. On the night of the 5th,
Morgan reached Lebanon and quartered his entire force in houses in
the town. On the evening of the 6th, Dumont with his command from
Nashville, joined by that of Duffield from Murfreesboro, surprised
and attacked Morgan's troopers, completely routing them after
a severe engagement. Morgan with a few men under his immediate
command escaped after a chase of twenty-one miles from Lebanon,
crossing the Cumberland River on a ferry. Dumont had with him
detachments of Wynkoop's Seventh Pennsylvania cavalry, of Wolford's
First Kentucky cavalry and of Green Clay Smith's regiment of Kentucky
cavalry. Morgan's loss was 150 men captured, with the same number
of horses. The balance of his command was dispersed. Wolford
and Smith were both wounded, and the Federals lost 6 killed and 25
wounded. On the 11th, Morgan with his men that had escaped, and
two new companies, made a raid on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad at Cave City, captured a freight train of forty-eight
cars and burned it. He also captured a passenger train, which had
a few Federal officers on it. His object was to rescue the men of
his command taken prisoners at Lebanon, but in this he failed, as
they had been sent North by boat.

From this place Morgan reported with his command at Chattanooga to
refit, prepatory to his first extended raid into Kentucky. Here