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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 | |||||||
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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.