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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPCU_covered-by-cross-fires_Murfreesboro-TN.html
To find such a wide break in a fort's wall seems strange to a person today. Yet the gap you see here - then called a sortie passage - is a carefully calculated part of the defenses of Fortress Rosecrans. The area close to the walls was covered …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPCT_lunette-thomas_Murfreesboro-TN.html
[Our fortress] consists of a line of works called "lunettes" forming an irregular circle on both sides of Stones River. The "lunette" is a fortification having embankment, ditch, angles, and so forth in front, but open to the rear. Some of [the] s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPCN_living-under-the-guns_Murfreesboro-TN.html
The citizens of occupied Murfreesboro had constant reminders of the powerful federal army entrenched here on their doorsteps. From January 1863 to April 1866, "the streets were crowded at all times with wagons and soldiers....Soldiers camping thic…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPC5_new-citizen-soldiers_Murfreesboro-TN.html
In the months after this fort was built, thousands of men from Middle Tennessee joined eight new federal infantry regiments. Black men in blue coats guarded the railroad that fed Fortress Rosecrans, and helped garrison Nashville and Chattanooga. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPC2_i-never-saw-anything-like-them-before_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Looking over this parapet, you can still see some 1,400 feet of earthwork walls stretching out before you. In 1863 Fortress Rosecrans had more than 14,000 feet of walls surrounding a compound that covered 200 acres. Lunette ThomasThis earthwork…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPBM_toil-and-mud_Murfreesboro-TN.html
For nearly five months, thousands of soldiers and African-American laborers worked around the clock to build Fortress Rosecrans - digging, shaping, and compacting the works. It was backbreaking, highly unpopular duty. "Feb. 1, 1863. [Building f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPBC_a-vast-depot_Murfreesboro-TN.html
"Nearly every house in the place is filled with government stores. There is a pile of meat larger than our house, besides flour, hay, corn, coffee, rice, sugar, salt, tea, vinegar, etc. etc.... If one family of ten persons had these rations to eat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPAG_lunette-palmer_Murfreesboro-TN.html
Civil War fortifications were precisely designed. Every angle, every mound of earth, and every slope you see here in Lunette Palmer had a specific purpose. Lunette Palmer is a multi-sided, angled earthwork that projects outward from the basic p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPA2_fields-of-fire_Murfreesboro-TN.html
At the end of 1863, more than fifty cannon stood ready to defend Fortress Rosecrans. Five, including one 8-inch siege howitzer, were assigned to Lunette Palmer. The lunettes of Fortress Rosecrans were primarily artillery platforms. The ground i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP9E_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. To explore their stori…
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