Murfreesboro

Nashville Dispatch
July 16, 1862
p. 3, c. 1

Gentlemen who arrived in this city yesterday from Murfreesboro, having left there at ten o'clock the day previous, (Monday,) report that the number of killed and wounded in the engagement of Sunday will probably not exceed one hundred on both sides. They also report that the mill of Messrs. Spence & Co., was not burned, neither was the residence of Mr. Jordan. The railroad depot was burned, and a small building near by caught fire from the depot and was consumed.

The Confederates loaded all the wagons they captured with commissary and other stores, and burned what they could not take off, which, we learn, was considerable. They are reported to have taken the prisoners they captured off in the direction of McMinnville.

No houses or other property sustained any injury from the cannonading, which was kept up for some time.

At the time these gentlemen left Murfreesboro, Gen. Forrest and a portion of his command were still there. One of Forrest's men was captured by the Pennsylvania cavalry, and has been lodged in the Penitentiary here.

Later intelligence says Gen. Forrest paroled the privates among the captured, and sent off the officers. It is also reported that Forrest had left Murfreesboro.

All fears of an attack on Nashville have now subsided.

Article transcribed by Vicki Betts.