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paulscuba 

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18 years ago

This is not the largest national battlefield but it has a few monuments, the remnants of Fortress Rosecrans(the union general) and a national cemetary. The battle was to defend supply lines through Murfeesboro along the road and railway. Both sides wanted to control these key transportation routes. We loved the CBOT Battery. Ok I'm guessing that is not a sponsorship deal but more likely people... 

Toughluck 

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19 years ago

Stones River National Battlefield is one of those battles where both the Union and the Confederacy have the right to declare victory. On the morning of Dec. 30, the Confederate Army materialized out of the cold damp driving the Unions right flank back upon itself more than 2 miles. Their retreat and supply lines on the Nashville Road were nearly cut into, except for the defense displayed by the... 

Toughluck 

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19 years ago

Like many national cemeteries this one began as a burial place for the Union dead. After the Battle of Stones River, the wounded were sent to Nashville and the dead were interred here. 

mtncorg 

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11 years ago

Two Federal groups put monuments up here at Stones River but this one was by a long ways the first erected. In fact, this monument remembering the efforts of the Second Brigade/Colonel William Hazen – 2nd Division Brigadier General John Palmer – is the oldest formal effort to honor Civil War dead. Hazen’s brigade was the only Federal brigade to not be forced to change its position on Dec 31.... 

mtncorg 

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11 years ago

The large white obelisk atop the slight rise remembers the point at which Captain John Mendenhall amassed some 57 Federal cannons which effectively snuffed out the Confederate attack on Jan 2 by Breckinridge’s division. Erected in 1908 by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St Louis Railway, the monument is not necessarily in honor of the Union guns, the railroad’s president, John Thomas had been a... 

mtncorg 

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11 years ago

As with tour stop 4 and the Chicago Board of Trade Battery, here cannons figured strongly in arresting the Confederate advance midmorning Dec 31, 1862. As Sheridan’s division finally came apart around noon, Batteries H & M of the 4th U.S. Artillery – artillery batteries with history in service dating back to the Mexican War – were placed in a cotton field just a quarter of a mile to the... 

mtncorg 

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11 years ago

Many men of the 111th U.S. Colored Infantry stayed on in the Murfreesboro area after they finished their work of reburying the Federal dead. The local community was aptly named Cemetery. Church, store and even a rail stop were all here. One of the former soldiers, Sergeant William Holland, is buried just outside the walls of the Hazen Monument. 

mtncorg 

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11 years ago

In 1865, Union dead were gathered from the area around Murfreesboro – there were several other battles besides this one – by soldiers of the 111th U.S. Colored Infantry. Over 6,100 soldiers are buried in the cemetery with the identity of some 2,500 of the men still unknown. After the battle, the Federal and Confederate dead were placed in mass graves. Later the Confederates were removed – many... 

mtncorg 

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11 years ago

McFadden’s Ford is the site where General William Rosecrans was going to shuttle across Major General Thomas Crittenden’s Left Wing on Dec 31, 1862 in order to bash in the Confederate right flank. Crittenden had begun to get his troops across with Van Cleve’s division in front when it became apparent that the Confederates had beaten the Federals to the punch by smashing the Federals on the...