ORs: (US) Gen. W. S. Smith to J. B. Fry - July 14, 1862

War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Series 1, Volume 16, Part 2, Page 149

TANTALON,
July 14, 1862—9 o’clock.

Col. J. B. FRY,
Chief of Staff:

A letter from the colonel of the Eighth Kentucky from Tullahoma states that the enemy, some 3,000 or 4,000 strong, under Morgan, Starnes, and Forrest, attacked our force at Murfreesborough, and have killed and captured six companies of the ninth Michigan. The Third Minnesota and Hewett’s battery, stationed l 1/2 miles west of town, had repulsed them three times up to 11 a. m. yesterday. There are at Tullahoma Twenty-first Kentucky Regimeilt, eight companies of the Eighth Kentucky, Fifth Kentucky Cavalry, four companies of Michigan Engineers and Mechanics, and one section of artillery; total effective force about 1,400 men. I have with me about 1,200 men fit for duty. All these troops, together with the Eighteenth Ohio and five companies of the Twenty-fourth Illinois, marching to Cowan, can be concentrated at Tullahoma to-night if the detachment on the march to Cowan gets there all right. I am leaving the Louisville Legion on the railroad as it is now stationed, and shall do so for a couple of days unless otherwise ordered. Have you any special orders?

W. S. SMITH,
Brigadier- General