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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KNN_parsons-batteries-heavily-engaged_Murfreesboro-TN.html
The 200 Regular Army gunners of Batteries H and M set up their eight cannon from here all the way to the Nashville Pike. For four solid hours, at brutal short range they fired many hundreds of rounds if munitions into the rebel ranks. Their steady…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CY6_this-far-but-no-farther_Murfreesboro-TN.html
For six hours, the Confederates had been on the attack. Their relentless onslaught had pushed half the Union army back three miles. Tangled cedar woods and rock-filled terrain took their toll. A 1,800-man brigade of tired Tennesseans finally emerg…
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1B6O_stand-fast_Murfreesboro-TN.html
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/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/HM1B56_they-passed-this-way_Murfreesboro-TN.html
After the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830, the United States government forced tens of thousands of American Indians to leave their ancestral lands in the southeast for new homes in Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). They traveled …
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By the middle of the night before the battle, General Sheridan saw signs that the Confederates might attack near here. By 4 a.m., Sheridan had visited all three of his brigade commanders. He gave orders for his men to be fed an early breakfast and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16TZ_boys-you-must-get-out-of-here-you-are-surrounded_Murfreesboro-TN.html
-James Negley, brigadier general, commanding 2nd Division, Center Wing
The jumbled rocks you see here sheltered the four Union regiments of Miller's brigade during a hard two-hour-long fight. Rebel bullets whined and ricocheted, wounding many. …
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…