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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP0W_chicago-board-of-trade-battery_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Panic-stricken Union troops bolted out of the woods, closely pressed by cheering Texans. Canister from the battery's six guns, placed on this rise, forced back the attackers. Reinforced by a second battery, the Union artillerymen repulsed a second…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP0U_god-has-granted-us-a-happy-new-year_Murfreesboro-TN.html
God has granted us a Happy New Year!Braxton Bragg, general commanding the Army of the Tennessee, in a telegram to Confederate President Jefferson Davis
On New Year's Eve the fighting had raged from dawn to dusk. Here on the edges of this broad,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP0T_why-fight-here_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Here in the quiet fields and forests along Stones River outside Murfreesboro, two great armies fought - and spilled the blood of tens of thousands of Americans in one of the most costly battles of the Civil War. Why here?
The answer is found in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP0I_battle-at-stones-river_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Stones River National Battlefield preserves some key portions of the ground where two great armies of Americans - some 81,000 men - clashed with each other. Their bitter, three-day struggle erupted on New Year's Eve 1862.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP0F_slave-soldier-citizen_Murfreesboro-TN.html
A tombstone can only tell so much about the life of a man. From the shape and standard design of the markers you see ahead, you can tell that two veterans of the United States military lie here in graves just outside of the wall of the Hazen Briga…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP0D_hazens-brigade-monument_Murfreesboro-TN.html
(Front):Hazen's Brigadetothe memory of its soldierswho fell atStone River December 31, 1862"Their faces toward heaven,Their feet to the foe."Inscribed at the close of the warChickamaugaChattanooga(Right Side):The blood of one third of its soldiers…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP0B_hazen-brigade-monument_Murfreesboro-TN.html
The Union army occupied the town, January 5, 1863, three days after the battle here. They spent the winter and spring in and around Murfreesboro.
Some of Hazen's men under Lieutenant E. K. Crebbin, 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment, built of Tennes…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP04_remembering-sacrifices-in-stone_Murfreesboro-TN.html
"...around the spot where the monument was erected...to the best recollection 113 of our regiment were killed and wounded...it is hoped that the monument will remain standing as a memorial to the gallant and patriotic men of General Hazen's brigad…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOZM_anchoring-the-union-line_Murfreesboro-TN.html
...thousands of small arms kept up the roar equal to Niagara. Men were swept away by hundreds - trees shrubs and everything was torn up, cut off, or shivered ...John Magee, corporal, Stanford's Mississippi Light Artillery
Veterans called this b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMOZF_hazens-artillery_Murfreesboro-TN.html
This section of guns represents Battery F, 1st Ohio Volunteer Artillery commanded by Lt. Norrel Osburn (four James Rifles & two 12 pdr. howitzers). Along with Capt. Jerome B. Cox's 10th Indiana Battery (four 10 pdr. Parrotts and two 12 pdr. howitz…