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 Hazen Brigade Monument & Cemetery - Murfreesboro, TN Posted by:  YoSam.
N 35° 52.594 W 086° 25.643
16S E 551689 N 3970409
A quarter mile SE of the Stone River National Cemetery
Waymark Code: WM18V7Q
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 09/29/2023
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County of cemetery: Rutherford County
location of cemetery: Old Nashville Hwy, 2 blocks N. of TN 268, Murfreesboro
Number of graves: 56
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There are two tombstone just outside the fence, they are separate from the other because they were black.
The monuments four sides and four markers inscribed:
On the south side:
The weathered inscription above reads:
HAZEN'S BRIGADE
TO
THE MEMORY OF ITS SOLDIERS
WHO FELL AT
STONE RIVER, DEC. 31ST 1862
"THEIR FACES TOWARD HEAVEN,
THEIR FEET TO THE FOE."
INSCRIBED AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR
CHICAMAUGA
CHATANOOGA
On the west side: The weathered inscription above, carved in 1863 reads:
THE BLOOD OF ONE THIRD OF ITS SOLDIERS
TWICE SPILLED IN TENNESSEE
CRIMSONS THE BATTLE FLAG OF THE BRIGADE
AND INSPIRES TO GREATER DEEDS.
Killed at Stones River Dec. 31st 1862
Lt. Col. Geo. T. Cotton, 6th Ky, Vols.
Capt. Chas. S. Todd, 6 Ky, Vols.
Capt. Isaac M. Pettit, 9th Ind. Vols.
1st Lt. Calvin Hart, 41st O. Vols.
1st Lt. L.T. Patchin, 41st O. Vols.
2nd Lt. Henry Kessler, 9th Ind. Vols
2nd Lt. Jesse G. Payne, 110 Ill. Vols.
On the North side:
The weathered inscription above, carved in 1863 reads:
ERECTED IN 1863 UPON THE GROUND
WERE THEY FELL
by Their Comrades
Forty First Infantry Ohio Volunteers,
Lt. Col. A Wiley
Sixth Infantry Kentucky Volunteers,
Col. W. C. Whitaker
Ninth Infantry Indiana Volunteers,
Col. W. H. Blake
One Hundred and Tenth Infantry Illinois Volunteers,
Col. T. S. Casey
Cocherills Battery, Co. F
First Artillery Ohio Volunteers
Nineteenth Brigade Buell's Army of the Ohio
Col. W. B. Hazen
41st Inf'try O. Vols. Commanding
On the east side:
The weathered inscription above, carved in 1863 reads:
THE VETERANS OF SHILOH
HAVE LEFT A DEATHLESS HERITAGE OF
FAME UPON THE FIELD OF
STONE RIVER.
Killed at Shiloh April 7th 1862
Capt. James Houghton, 9th Ind. Vols
1st Lt. & Adj. T.J. Patton, 9th Ind. Vols.
1st Lt. Joseph Turner, 9th Ind. Vols.
1st Lt. Franklin E. Pancoast 41st O. Vols.
2nd Lt. Chauncey E. Tolcott, 41st O. Vols.
2nd Lt. Anton Hand, 6th Ky. Vols.
The Hazen Brigade Monument you see ahead is unlike any other . Union soldiers built it in 1863, just six months after the battle. At that time, the outcome of the war was still impossible to predict. Comrades of the men buried here -- not civilian contractors -- laid up these stones. Before the famous marble monuments of Shiloh, Chickamauga, or Gettysburg existed, travelers riding the Nashville & Chattanooga railroad would see this somber stonework -- a constant reminder of what it cost Hazen's Brigade to stand fast all day long at Stones River. It is the oldest intact Civil War monument in the nation. Visit Instructions:
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