The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1862-07-18

DEFEAT OF THE FEDERALS Ar
urRFREESBORO.

We received last nigh, copy Of the New York
Herald Of the 18th inst. The paper contains an ac
count OF the capture of Murfreesboro'. Tenn nv
The Confederstes, with $4,000 worth Of arms,
stores The following Is the dispatch anno,,ne in !
the disaster
NASHVILLE. July lath. 1864.
The Union forces engaged were the Third Mn.
nesoia Col Leslie eight hundred men six GONNA.
MES OF the Ninth Michigan. Col Parkhurst three
nnnared; the third battalion Of the Pennsylvania
SeVentn cavalry, TWO hundred and twenty. Ave
Hewiits battery, sixty men, convaescents; the
Fourth Kentucky, twenty five. IN all about four
teen hundred men
The rebel force consisted Of one regiment OF
| mounted infantry, a regiment Of Texan rangers.
and Georgia Alabama and Tennessee cayalry-be-
tween 1900 and tss) mostly armed with carbIucs
and shot guns.
onrs The Pennsylvania .th lost, In killed, wound.
ed and missing, 200 men. The only officers escaped
III far as reported, are Capt. J. f. Andrus Of Com.
pany g, Capt. c. c. Mccormick, and Lieut. n. D.
Mooney.
The comnissary and quartermaster's depart.
'nen,s We're recently repenisbed with new cloth.
Ing. &c. all of which have fallen into the hands OF
the enemy. Captain Rounds, Provost Marshal of
hnrfressboro, and guard, shot nine VI the Esbe.s
before sufrendering
The rebel Governor, Isham G. Harris and Andrew
Ewing. active secessionists here, were known to
be Il; Beersheba Springs. near Sparta q few davs
may, II Is apprehended, be extended TO the capital
of the State
The public still in grea. state Of excitement
many families having lett. The Louisville cars
were crowded this morning witl alarmed cotton
spectators and adventurers
1t Is reported that Gen John c. Breckenridge, Col
Forrest, and Col Raines, OF Nashville commanded
the rebel forces ut Murtreesboro IL is also reror,
Cd that iaey have taken Lorergne, fifteen miles
from Nashville, and that kirby Smith Is advancing
on Nashville from Chattanooga with fifteen thou.
sand men,
Murfreesboro' was Darrcaaed by bales of bay
end the Federal shells set fire to many houses Col
Lester is falling back towards Nashville Union
reinforcemen's are coming in by special trains
Ihe "8th Kentucky has just arrived. They were
chcered as they passed through the streets
The city IL in great state of excitement The
Secessonists confidently expect the arrival of the
rebel forces some time tonight. Batteries have
been placed on Capitol Hill and other points.
t3i Leslie surrendered at Murfteesboro' Mt four
o'clock T. M, tbs Ninncsota Third and Hew;tt's
battery included, the latter FOR want of amrnuni-
ton.
Georgia and Alabama cavalry and Texan Rangers
were engaged IN the fight The 7ti PENNSYLVANIA
cavalry were partly engaged. Some have reached
Nashville and are now on duty
Gen. I. A. Crit.enden, of Indiana, is prisoner.
Anescaped prisoner reports the 1s., 3D. and 4th
Geoi ga. the LIST Kentucky regiment, aud Texan
Rangers aud l,,GO mounted infantry under com.
mand OF Forrest and Warner, 900 in all advancing
or Nashville. The 9TH Pennsylvania cavalry and
tue 'ttn Onto arrived from Lebanon last night.
Fonr regiments are coming from Huntsville. 4
convaleseent camp of $50 of the llth Michigan il
still at Nashville, with camp equipage &c.
Men are lying on the sidewalks asleep, holding
their hcrsas brides in hand expecting every mo.
ment TO be called into action
VIEWS FROM KENTUCKY-THE PURSUIT OF NOR
sANsGgERRII.LA
LOUISVILLE, July IA, 1892
The llth Michigan arrived at the camp near
Louisville Fair Ground yesterday noon, after az
unsuccessful three days chase of Morgan
CINCINNATI, July A. 1862.
4 dispatch, dated Lexington, says tia. General
Ward Assumed command last night The city is
under martial law. No man IS to appear wi, ,hout Il
Innsket under penalty of being shot down. Gen
Wards proclamation orders al the citizeaG Of Fay
cite county to prepare forthwith for military duty
\ dispatch dated Frankfort, says that Morgan
with less than 10000 men. crossed the Kentucky
river this morning, and moved North 10 Versailles
where is force suficen; for the protection OF
Frankfort and Lexington.
Since Saturday night the city has been grea. ly
excited. 4 thousand ruulors afioat Meetings
have been held, and citizens in large numbers have
volunteered special service at Lexington. Over
one hundred Of the city police went fully armed
Many citizens are yet anxious to go, bat their
vices will not be accepted until further news from
Morgan Is had.