Battle of Stones
River (also known as Murfreesboro)
Location: Murfreesboro, TN (Rutherford County)
Dates: December 31, 1862 – January 2, 1863
Union Commander:
William S. Rosecrans, Major General
Confederate Commander:
Braxton Bragg, General
Battle Summary:
During the summer, and early fall, 1862, Lincoln’s armies, in the west, were
having success. His armies had pressed the Confederate armies out of
Kentucky, and portions of western Tennessee. With
U.S. Grant’s victories, at
Forts Henry and Donelson, in February, 1862, the Federal troops commanded
the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. This provided the leverage
necessary, to push CS General
Albert Sidney Johnston to abandon all of
Kentucky, and western Tennessee. Grant's victory over Johnston's
Army of the Tennessee, at Shiloh, pushed troops.......
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Union artillery north of the position of the
Cowan House.
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