Artillery Monument at McFadden's Farm: Stones River National Battlefield

ON JANUARY 2ND, 1863. AT 3:00 P.M.,
THERE WERE STATIONED ON THIS HILL
FIFTY-EIGHT CANNON. COMMANDING THE FIELD
ACROSS THE RIVER, AND AS THE CONFEDERATES
ADVANCED OVER THIS FIELD, THE SHOT AND SHELL
FROM THESE GUNS, RESULTED IN A LOSS OF
EIGHTEEN-HUNDRED, KILLED AND WOUNDED,
IN LESS THAN AN HOUR.

SHOPS OF N.C. & ST L. RY. JULY, 1906