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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHBI_battle-of-murfreesboro_Murfreesboro-TN.html
1/2 mile north is the hillock commanding a ford over Stone's River. Here Capt. John Mendenhall, 4th US Artillery, artillery officer on Gen. Crittenden's Staff, set a groupment of 58 guns which broke up the assault across the river of Mag. Gen John…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHBG_army-of-the-cumberland_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Moving to Bradyville, 14 mi. S.E., the XXI Corps (T.L. Crittenden) advanced against minor Confederate resistance on Manchester, to rendezvous with the rest of the Army under cover of Granger's feint at Shelbyville. This flanked the Army of TN out …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHBF_geographic-center-of-tennessee_Murfreesboro-TN.html
In 1834, the State of TN hired Professor James Hamilton to find its geographic center in order to locate the state capital as near as possible to the center of the state. However, certain circumstances and politics left the capital in Nashville, a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHBE_wheelers-raid-around-rosecrans_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Brig. Gen. Joseph Wheeler's Cavalry Brigade bivouacked hereabouts in the evening. At midnight, it moved north on Walterhill, then west on Jefferson, on a raid around Rosecrans' advancing army. The brigade consisted of the 1st, 3rd and 51st Alabama…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHBD_charles-egbert-craddock_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Mary Noailles Murfree, who later became a prominent authoress under this pen-name, was born at "Grantlands," whose site is now marked by a large pine tree, Jan. 24, 1850. Educated at the Nashville Female Academy, later in Philadelphia, her first w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHBC_bradley-academy_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Stood 100 yards E. Organized 1806, with Jos. Dixon, Jno. R. Bedford, Jn. Thompson, St., Wm. P. Anderson, and Robert Smith trustees, it was supported partly by tuition fees, partly by lotteries. An early headmaster was Samuel P. Black. James K. Pol…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHBB_murfreesboro_Murfreesboro-TN.html
First settlers came in 1799; the settlement was first named Cannonsburg. It was actually founded in 1811 on land donated by Capt. William Lytle, who stipulated that the town should be named for Hardee Murfree, a Revolutionary veteran of Williamson…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHB5_black-fox-camp-spring_Murfreesboro-TN.html
1/2 mi. east were the hunting grounds of Cherokee Chief Black Fox, Inali. On Sept. 7, 1794, Ore's Expedition overpowered Black Box at the spring. According to legend, to avoid capture Black Fox leaped into the spring and emerged from Murfree Sprin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMHB4_governor-john-prince-buchanan_Murfreesboro-TN.html
John P. Buchanan, the 28th governor of Tennessee, was born in Williamson County on October 27, 1847. After serving in the Confederate Army, he moved to Rutherford County. In 1887, he was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives. Three yea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMGW8_army-of-the-cumberland_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Moving south about 3 mi. E., the XX Federal Corps (McCook) was stopped at Liberty Gap, 6 mi. S.E., by the 5th & 15th Arkansas Inf., of Liddell's Brigade, later reinforced by Cleburne's Division. With its 1st (Jeff C. Davis) & 2nd (R.W. Johnson) Di…