Stones River National Cemetery - Veteran Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

The federal government established Stones River National Cemetery by means of an order issued by Major General George H. Thomas to Brigadier General Horatio Van Cleve on March 29, 1864. Assistant Quartermaster Captain John Means selected the site, designed the layout of the cemetery, and initiated the construction.

Chaplain William Earnshaw supervised most of the work of creating the cemetery. During 1865 and 1866, the 111th Regiment United States Colored Troops performed the arduous and gruesome labor of disinterring and then reburying Union soldiers’ remains in Stones River National Cemetery. Earnshaw reports that he oversaw the process of disinterring the bodies of Union soldiers from various locations such as Stones River battlefield, Murfreesboro, Franklin, Shelbyville, Tullahoma, and Cowan, within approximately ninety miles of the cemetery. Most of the work of reburying remains in the cemetery was completed by 1867.

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Date cemetery was established: June 23, 1865 Visiting hours: Daylight hours Website pertaining to the cemetery: [Web Link]

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