The action at Little Bear Creek, listed in the offical records as Rock Cut, may be summarized as follows:

Event: Apr. 23rd – Action at the Rock Cut near Tuscumbia.
Locations: Franklin (modern-day Colbert) County, Ala., not found in atlas, but reported as
being five miles west of Tuscumbia, in the vicinity of Little Bear Creek, 149:D/E-3/4.
Campaign: Expedition to Courtland, Alabama, April 15-May 2, 1863.
Units engaged: CSA, led by Col. P. D. Roddey.
Alabama – 4th (Roddey’s) Cav. Regt., Baxter’s & Julian’s Battns.
USA, led by Brig. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge

Alabama – 1st Cav. Regt.

Illinois – 15th Cav. Regt.(6 cos.); 7th, 9th (Mtd.), 12th, 50th, 52nd, 57th & 122nd Inf. Regts.

Indiana – 66th Inf. Regt.

Iowa – 2nd & 39th Inf. Regts.

Kansas – 7th Cav. Regt.

Missouri – Batteries “D”, “H” & “I”, 1st Art. Regt.; 10th Cav. Regt.

Ohio – 27th, 39th, 43rd, 63rd & 81st Inf. Regts.
Strength: CSA, estimated 600 officers and men; USA, estimated 8200 officers and men.
Casualties: CSA, not reported; USA, none reported.
References: OR 23 1:241, 247, 250 & 261.

Report of Brig. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, Left Wing, XVI Army Corps, U. S. Army:
Tuesday night, Colonel Fuller's brigade, from Corinth, joined me. Wednesday morning, I advanced with all the force, and came up with the enemy at Rock Cut, 5 miles west of Tuscumbia; planted my batteries and drove them out of it, taking the line of Little Bear Creek that night. The enemy's position was a very strong one, and there was but one way to flank it. The enemy fell back as soon as I brought the infantry to bear upon them.