Latest from Murfreesboro – More Particulars – Our loss 9,500 killed and wounded and 5,000 prisoners.

NEW YORK, Jan.6. – The Times has the following dispatch from Nashville on the 5th, from persons arriving from the battlefield. I learn that on Saturday night, during the storm the rebels attacked our men in their rifle pits along the whole line.

There was heavy fighting in the centre. – We drove the enemy across Stone River. The 77th Pennsylvania first carried the point. On Sunday morning Stanley’s brigade entered Murfreesboro. The town is injured by shells.

General Sill’s body was at the Court House – The Rebels buried their own dead, and our officers. There has been great loss of Confederate life. We lose about 9,500 killed and wounded, and about 5,000 prisoners. The enemy retreated to Tulahoma. Our forces are terribly shattered. Out of 136 Colonels engaged we lost 19 killed.

– Published in the Zanesville Daily Courier, Zanesville, Ohio, Tuesday, January 6, 1863