They were sent by Vaughn to scout the size of the Union army. James Rose (namesake of Morristown's Rose Center). On his approach to Morristown, he was engaged by about 100 Confederates under the command of Col. On the morning of October 28, 1864, Gillem's Union brigade arrived at the battlefield around 9 o'clock coming from the west.
One section of artillery was stationed where Morristown College (now Fulton-Hill Park) used to be. The second line, also about a mile long, was east of the town and was most likely flanked on both sides with artillery. The first line, dismounted, ran west of the town for around a mile long. In preparing his defenses, Vaughn deployed his Confederate forces into two lines.
The Union troops reached Mossy Creek (now Jefferson City) and Panther Creek, just west of Morristown, on October 27. Gillem moved his Union forces from New Market, Tennessee to Morristown in order to dislodge Vaughn out of East Tennessee and capture his men. Vaughn's Confederate forces captured the railroad depot at Bull's Gap, before taking up positions southwest at Morristown. In October 1864, Brigadier General John C. Gillem to establish civil law and protect loyal mountaineers. Shortly after becoming Abraham Lincoln's running mate for the election of 1864, Andrew Johnson began working on removing Confederate resistance in East Tennessee. At the time, it was a small collection of buildings surrounded by open farm land. The town would remain a key military crossroads for the rest of the war. This railroad location meant that troops were moving through Morristown as early as Spring 1861. Morristown, Tennessee sat at the crossroads of the East Tennessee & Virginia Railroad and the turnpike to Cumberland Gap.
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