Capture of Major Seibert.--On Friday last, Mr. Seibert, formerly a citizen of this Borough, but now a resident of Philadelphia, received a telegraphic despatch from Nashville, to the effect that his son, James Seibert, Major of the 3d Battalion, 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, had been taken prisoner in the recent fight at Murfreesboro. He was not hurt. Quite a number of his men were also captured, but were subsequently paroled by the rebels. We are not aware that any of them are from this County.

    Col. Wynkoop of the 7th Penna. Cavalry, writes that four companies of his regiment were captured at Murfreesboro, with all of the officers, except Capt. McCormick, Capt. Andrews and Lieut. Mooney. Major Seibert, Col. Duffield and Gen. Crittenden are prisoners. Fifty-two men of the battalion, escaped capture, and reached the Colonel at Nashville. The entire regiment started subsequently, under his command, to Murfreesboro. The loss to the command was 150 men, in killed, wounded and prisoners. The Colonel's health, we are happy to hear, is good.

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    We are pained to hear of the capture or destruction of the command held by Major Seibert, of the 7th Penna. Cavalry, at Murfreesboro; in the last raid of John Morgan, especially as we have strong intimations of neglect on the part of the superior officers of that post. The Major we believe, is safe, but he is a prisoner, and nothing has been heard of him since his capture. It was supposed that Col. Wynkoop was with that battalion of his regiment, which is incorrect. A day or two after, Major John E. Wynkoop was ordered with an escort of fifteen men, to make a reconnoissance, if possible, from Nashville to Shelbyville, and report. He passed through Murfreesboro, which was garrisoned by one hundred rebel cavalry, and undiscovered, until he had reached the opposite end, when sixty of them gave him chase for four miles. He narrowly escaped capture, by tearing up the planks of a bridge crossing a deep ravine. On his arrival at Shelbyville, he made his report, and was ordered with his battalion, to join Gen. Smith at Tullahoma.

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Unknown, "Local Affairs, Capture of Major Seibert," The Miners' Journal and Pottsville General Advertiser, Pottsville, Pa., Saturday, 26 July 1862, page 2, col. 4.