Stones River National Cemetery - Murfreesboro, TN
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haole122
N 35° 52.839 W 086° 25.993
16S E 551159 N 3970859
Photo taken at the entrance to the cemetery, facing ENE from Old Nashville Hwy. Burial parties are shown at work in the 1866 photograph of Stones River National Cemetery. The rounded mounds mark the graves of the recently interred Union soldiers.
Waymark Code: WMT6R6
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/04/2016
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Infosign reads: "This Precious Dust"
"When the Battle of Stones River ended on January 2, 1863, over 3,000 Union and Confederate soldiers lay dead. Most were buried in hastily prepared graves on the battlefield. In October 1865 soldiers from the 111th United States Colored Infantry began the arduous and gruesome task of disinterring the bodies of the Union soldiers and reburying them here in the newly opened Stones River National Cemetery. By April 1866 what Chaplain William Earnshaw called "the precious dust" of over 6,000 Union soldiers had been brought here for reburial. Included were not only soldiers killed at Stones River but others who had died elsewhere in Middle Tennessee. Of these, 2,562 are unknown. The Confederate dead, not eligible for burial in national cemeteries, were take to their home towns or to public cemeteries in nearby Murfreesboro."
Year photo was taken: 1866
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