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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CY5_cotton-field-no-mans-land_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Rail fences like this one kept free ranging livestock out of farm fields. These fences were quickly consumed by both armies for firewood and breastworks. Courageous Confederate infantry made several charges across this field from noon on the 31st …
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On came the sounds of battle...struggling blue-coats...falling back came into view through the trees. They were loading and firing as the retired...they passed over our...line and laid down behind it. The order ?Battalion, rise up!' came like an e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B6H_the-confederate-circle-at-evergreen_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Within this circle lies the remains of over 2,000 gallant Confederate soldiers who gave their lives in the battles in and around Murfreesboro during The War Between The States 1861-1865. They were first buried on the battlefield where they died de…
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The Confederate Circle at historic Evergreen Cemetery was established in 1890. The reburial of Confederate dead from across the county here took place the following year. Among those buried here is Robert James Campbell Gailbreath (1829-1863), …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B6A_oaklands-mansion_Murfreesboro-TN.html
(preface)For two weeks in July 1862, Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest led 1,400 cavalrymen through Middle Tennessee to raid, scout, and disrupt the Union Army of The Cumberland's operation there. Leaving McMinnville on July 13, Forrest fought actions a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B63_n-b-forrests-raid-on-murfreesboro_Murfreesboro-TN.html
"For historic drama, few events in the American Civil War can equal Nathan Bedford Forrest's raid of July 13, 1862, on Murfreesboro, Tennessee." -Kenneth Halfendorfer, Historian A Critical LocationThroughout the Civil War, Murfreesboro was of s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B61_fortress-rosecrans_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Constructed in 1863 after the Battle of Stones River, Fortress Rosecrans protected the huge Union supply depot at Murfreesboro. The nearly three miles of earthworks enclosed about 200 acres of storehouses, blockhouses, and power magazines. Union e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B5Z_battle-of-murfreesboro_Murfreesboro-TN.html
(preface)For two weeks in July 1862, Col. Nathan Bedford Forrest led 1,400 cavalrymen through Middle Tennessee to raid, scout and disrupt the Union Army of the Cumberland's operation there. Leaving McMinnville on July 13, Forrest fought actions at…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B5X_architecture-on-the-square_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Almost all of the buildings that surround the courthouse now date from after the Civil War. Constructed in a restrained frugality more than stylistic choice, these structures replaced the earlier stores and warehouses that composed the antebell…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B5W_general-griffith-rutherford_Murfreesboro-TN.html
For whom this county was named in 1803. In the early years of the Revolutionary War he commanded all Military Forces west of the Alleghenies
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