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Camp Jackson skirmish

Hello everybody, I was wondering if anyone had any information about a skirmish that is said to have taken place on 24 March 1862 at Camp Jackson near Hendersonville, Tennessee, in Sumner County about 18 miles northeast of Nashville. The Official Records in their timeline of events in Vol. 10 mention it as happening

http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=moawar&cc=moawar&idno=waro0010&node=waro0010%3A3&view=image&seq=19&size=100

but I found no after-action reports related to the skirmish. All I know about it is that supposedly it involved the 4th Ohio Cavalry as stated here

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0140%3Astate%3DTennessee%3Ayear%3D1862

but other than that I know absolutely nothing about it. Many thanks to anyone who can shed some light on this little-known skirmish.

And now that I think about it, I can't figure out why there would even be a skirmish there at that time, considering that Nashville fell to the Union in late February. Why would the Confederates risk keeping a training camp there a month after Nashville fell? Wouldn't any guys trained there have to exfiltrate through Union lines just to get to Confederate-held territory? I don't get it.

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