Columbia, Battle of

The Battle of Columbia is a series of military actions that take place November 24–29, 1864, in Maury County, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War.

It concludes the movement of Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood's Confederate Army of Tennessee from the Tennessee River in northern Alabama to Columbia, Tennessee, and across the Duck River.

A Union force under Maj. Gen. John M. Schofield skirmishes with Hood's cavalry, commanded by Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, and fortifies a defensive line south of Columbia, but soon withdraws north across the Duck River, abandoning the town.

Hood's invasion of Tennessee continues as he attemptsto intercept Schofield's retreating army at Spring Hill.

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