 While Col. Morgan's small band held off a main Union force under Major General Cullem Gillem on the opposite side the Holston River, Union Col. Samuel Patton took a force of cavalry to a ford in the river north and came down behind the Confederates.Out-numbered, out-flanked, and demoralised by the bitter winter weather, Col. Morgan surrendered.The Confederates suffered 18 dead, and 84 prisoners of war were sent to a Union prison in Knoxville.