ORs: (US) Correspondence between Gen. Thomas & Gen. Buell

War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies
Series 1, Volume 16, Part 2, Page 462

HDQRS. FIRST DIVISION, ARMY OF THE OHIO,
McMinnville,
August 31, 1862.

General BUELL,
Decherd:

Thursday Forrest was whipped by Colonel Grose’s men near Woodbury. Friday he attacked the stockade on the McMinnville Railroad 8 miles from here and was whipped again, and returned up Hickory Creek. Started yesterday for Bragg’s camp by Altamont; was met by McCook’s advance and again whipped. He then returned toward Woodbury again, but was pursued by one of Wood’s regiments, overtaken, and attacked at the crossing of the road from Manchester to Smithvile and the road from here to Murfreesborough, and again badly whipped and dispersed.

GEO. H. THOMAS,
Major-General, U. S. Volunteers.