On November 29, 1864, just one day before the Battle of Franklin, an action occurred here at Thompson's Station that alarmed Union Gen. John M. Schofield's army as it marched north toward Nashville from Spring Hill. For a time, Lt. Col. Daniel W. McCoy and the 175th Ohio Infantry had occupied ground near the railroad depot. Soon, however, Confederate Gen. Lawrence S. Ross's cavalry brigade from Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest's command drove off the Ohio regiment, burned the bridge and depot, and attacked a train arriving from the south.
