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Third Battle of Murfreesboro | |||||||
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Part of the American Civil War | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
United States (Union) | CSA (Confederacy) | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Lovell H. Rousseau Robert H. Milroy | Nathan Bedford Forrest | ||||||
Units involved | |||||||
Murfreesboro Garrison | Forrest's Cavalry Corps | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
8,000 | 7,000 | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
225 | 197 |
The Third Battle of Murfreesboro, also known as Wilkinson Pike or the Cedars, was fought December 5–7, 1864, in Rutherford County, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War.