The Nashville Daily Union

Guerrillas at Sweet Water.

We learn from passengers by the Knoxville train last evening, that on Thursday morning, at 1 o'clock, the garrison at Sweetwater, a small station on the Knoxville and Chattanooga railroad sixty eight miles from this city, were surrounded and captured by a force of guerrillas numbering seventy-five or one hundred, under the command of a fellow named Capt Martin. The garrison was composed of detachments from companies C, E, F of the 2d Ohio Heavy Artillery. We understand that they occupied a dwelling house as a fort, and that they made a brisk little fight, in which they had one man killed, while rebels were seen to carry off three men, but whether killed or severely wounded our informants did not learn. The guerrillas stripped the rings from the fingers of all the girls in the country, and took every horse in the neighborhood, with the exception of the one belonging to Dr. Scruggs, who was fortunate enough to get his Bucephalus into the bushes before the fellows could lay their hands upon it.

Chatt Gazette, 17th