Second Headquarters of General Bragg-Battle at Stones River - Murfreesboro TN
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Don.Morfe
N 35° 52.115 W 086° 25.181
16S E 552388 N 3969527
The marker is at the General Bragg Trailhead of the Greenway Trail Park System, West College Street, Murfreesboro, TN USA
37129.
Waymark Code: WM18VHW
Location: Tennessee, United States
Date Posted: 10/02/2023
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TEXT ON THE MARKER
Battle at Stones River
Stones River National Battlefield preserves some key portions of the ground where two great armies of Americans--some 81,000--clashed with each other. Their bitter, three-day struggle erupted on New Years Eve 1862.
You Are Here at the Second Headquarters of General Bragg
West Point graduate Braxton Bragg was 45 years old when he received command of the Confederate Army of Tennessee in April 1862. After six months of campaigning in eastern Tennessee and Kentucky, Bragg ordered his men to set up winter quarters here in Middle Tennessee.
When the Federals unexpectedly marched out of Nashville, Bragg’s 38,000 Confederates--then spread out over a 50-mile wide front--had to be brought into battle lines outside Murfreesboro. It was here that Bragg ordered General Breckinridge’s doomed attack on January 2, 1863.
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