book, at page 152, says:

"The force of enlisted men fit for duty at Murfreesboro was
fully one thousand. Forest reported that the whole number of
enlisted men captured, taken to McMinnville and paroled was
between 1,100 and 1,200. Our forces, however, were separated.
There were five companies, 250 strong, of the Ninth Michigan in
camp three-fourths of a mile east of the town, on the Liberty
turnpike (another company of the Ninth Michigan, forty-two
strong, occupied the court-house as a provost guard). Near the
camp of the Ninth Michigan were eighty men of the Seventh
Pennsylvania Cavalry, under Major Seibert; also, eighty-one men
of the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry, under Captain Chilson. More than
a mile distant, on the other side of the town, on undulating,
rocky and shaded ground, near Stone river, were nine companies
of the Third Minnesota, five hundred strong. Near it, also, were
two sections (four guns) of Hewitt's Kentucky Field Artillery,
with sixty-four men for duty. Forty-five men of Company C, Third
Regiment, under Lieutenant Grummons, had gone the afternoon of
July 12th, as the guard on a supply train, to Shelbyville, and
had not returned the thirteenth."

Murfreesboro was on the Nashville & Chattanooga railroad. It was a well
built town, around a square, in the center of which was the court-house.
There were in the town valuable military stores.

On July 13th, at daybreak, news arrived at Murfreesboro that the rebel
general, Forest, was about to make an attack on the place, which news
was verified by General Forest capturing the picket guard and dashing
into the town soon after the news arrived, with a mounted force of 1,500
men. A part of this force charged upon the camp of the Seventh
Pennsylvania, then reformed, and charged upon the Ninth Michigan
Infantry, which made a gallant defense and repulsed the enemy's
repeated charges, suffering a loss of eleven killed and eighty-nine
wounded. The enemy suffered considerable loss, including a colonel
killed, up to about noon, when the Ninth Michigan surrendered. General
Crittenden was captured in his quarters, about eight o'clock. Almost
simultaneous with the first attack, a part of Forest's force moved
toward the Third Minnesota, which had sprung up at the first sound of
the firing, formed into line, Colonel Lester in command, and with two
guns of Hewitt's Battery on each flank, marched