 Skirmish at Hobdy's Bridge

A detachment of Union soldiers from the 1st Florida U.S. Cavalry had been sent from Montgomery to Eufaula to escort a mail shipment through the unsettled regions of eastern Alabama.General Robert E. Lee had already surrendered and Wilson's Raid had just devastated the region, but there were still many former Confederate soldiers were drifting through the region trying to get home, which presented a threat.A mail escort, commanded by Lt. Joseph Carroll of the Union Army, left Montgomery on May 11, 1865, and reached Eufaula without difficulty.