IMPORTANT FROM TENNESSEE: A Raid of National Forces into McMinnville; The Place Surprised and Captured Without Difficulty (4/25/1863)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 4/25/1863

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MURFREESBORO, Tenn., Friday, April 24.

Gen. REYNOLDS reports from Liberty the particulars of the McMinnville affair. The main mounted force, under Cols. WILDER and MINTY, arrived at McMinnville at 1 o'clock on Wednesday morning, taking the place almost entirely by surprise. A rebel force, under GRIGSBY, was in front of the town, but Gen. REYNOLDS amused them while Col. WILDER went into the place. GRIGSBY escaped.

Col. LONGWORTH, of the Ohio cavalry, struck the railroad, destroyed the telegraph and bridges between Morrison and Manchester, and burned a train of cars and locomotive, together with other spare cars at various places, and vast quantities of meat.

Capt. WICKLIFFE, of the Second Kentucky cavalry, in charge of an important part of the expedition, got drunk, and was sent in under arrest, disgraced.

At McMinnville, Col. WILDER destroyed the bridges, 600 blankets, 30,000 pounds of bacon, two hogsheads of sugar, three hogsheads of rice, eight barrels of whisky, 200 bales of cotton, one large cotton factory, one large mill and one small one, one camp at Charley's Creek, and subsequently one at Liberty, and took 300 prisoners, among them DICK MCCANN, who afterward escaped. Lieut.-Col. MARTIN, rebel, was mortally wounded.

Gen. REYNOLDS then moved toward Liberty. MORGAN is moving toward Carthage, near Alexandria. Our scouts are picking up rebels every half hour. Among them is a Captain. Gen. REYNOLDS destroyed a mill at Liberty, which had been doing good work for the rebels.

LOUISVILLE, KY., Friday, April 24.

After the destruction of Celina, Tenn., a party from Tompkinsville, Ky., Wednesday, burned the Court-house and half a dozen other buildings, killed five or six Union men, and retreated.

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Friday, April 24.

It is reported that our forces are in possession of McMinnville. Gen. REYNOLDS' force,

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From the Army of the Potomac: Details of the Operations of General Stoneman’s Command – 2
The Peninsula Campaign: Testimony of Gen. Hooker – 2-3
The Rebel Pirates: The Barks Lapwing and Colcord Captured by the Florida – 3-4
News from North Carolina: Gen. Foster Moving Against the Rebels – 4
News from Fortress Monroe: Killed and Wounded at Suffolk and on the Nansemond – 4
The War in Missouri: Cape Girardeau and Pilot Knob Safe – 4
Department of Gen. Dix: Brilliant Affair at Chuckatuck – 4
News from Washington: Our Special Washington Dispatches – 4-5
Editorial: The Rebellion Necessarily a Failure – 5
Editorial: Suggestions Regarding the Conscription – Perils of the Future – 5-6
The Truth at Last – 6
The Paper-Makers’ Combination Again – 6
Amusements – 6
General News – 6