334 Series I Volume XXIII-I Serial 34 - Tullahoma Campaign Part I
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MAY 21-22. 1863.- Expedition from Murfreesborough to Middleton, Tenn., and skirmish.
REPORTS.
Numbers 1.- Major General William S. Rosecrans, U. S. Army.
Numbers 2.- Major General David S. Stanley, U. S. Army.
Numbers 3.- Robert H. G. Minty, commanding First Brigade, Second Cavalry Division.
Numbers 4.- Captain Elmer Otis, Fourth U. S. Cavalry.
Numbers 5.- Lieutenant William O'Connell, Fourth U. S. Cavalry.
Numbers 6.- Lieutenant Colonel Josiah B. Park, Fourth Michigan Cavalry.
Numbers 7.- Colonel Eli Long, Fourth Ohio Cavalry.
Numbers 8.- Major George W. Dobb, Fourth Ohio Cavalry.
Numbers 9.- Major Horace N. Howland, Third Ohio Cavalry.
Numbers 10.- Lieutenant Colonel Robert Klein, third Indiana Cavalry.
Numbers 11.- Lieutenant Colonel William B. Sipes, Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry.
Numbers 12.- Colonel Thomas J. Harrison, Thirty-ninth Indiana (Mounted) Infantry.
Numbers 13.- Brigadier General William T. Martrin, C. S. Army.
Numbers 1. Report of Major General William S. Rosecrans, U. S. Army.
HEADQUARTERS DEPARTMENT OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Murfreesborough, Tenn., May 27, 1863.GENERAL: I have the honor to transmit, inclosed, the report of Major General D. S. Stanley, with sub-reports, of a successful attack on some rebel cavalry camps, near Middleton. The affair was quite successful, our troops capturing and destroying three regimental camps, about six hundred stand of fire-arms, and capturing some 80 prisoners, In this affair Lieutenant O'Connell behaved with conspicuous gallantry. Our loss was the gallant Second Lieutenant Francis C. Wood, Fourth Regular Cavalry, mortally, 1 non-commissioned officer and 2 privates wounded, and a sergeant and 5 privates taken prisoners, in the charge of Company K, Fourth Regulars, on the enemy's more distant camps.
W. S. ROSECRANS,
Major-General.
Brigadier General LORENZO THOMAS,
Adjutant-General, U. S. Army, Washington, D. C.
Numbers 2. Report of Major General David S. Stanley, U. S. Army.
HDQRS. CHIEF OF CAV., DEPT. OF THE CUMBERLAND,
Murfreesborough, Tenn., May 27, 1863.GENERAL: I have the honor to report, for the information of the general commanding, that, having learned that quite a force of the cavalry of the enemy was lying about carelessly at Middleton, I started on
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