Sunday, October 9, 2011

Battle of Murfreesboro: Stones River National Battlefield





BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO

– JAN. 2, 1863 –


½ mile north is the hillock commanding a ford over Stone’s River.  Here Capt. John Mendenhall, 4th US Artillery, artillery officer of Gen. Crittenden’s staff, set a groupment of 58 guns which broke up the assault across the river of Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge’s Confederate Division.  Tablets on the spot give details.

















SOURCE: Interpretive marker and cannon at the corner of NW Broad Street and McFadden’s Lane (present day Van Cleve Lane), Murfrees-boro, Tennessee



No comments: