Profile: Stones River National Battlefield
3501 Old Nashville Highway in Murfreesboro is a lot less mundane location than its address might suggest. Okay, so for the modern day YouTube generation concerned more with iPads and Android phones, it might be about as mundane as the phone book. For history buffs however — heck, even for those who just have an appreciation of American history — the site better known as Stones River National Battlefield is a treasure trove of interesting facts and history from the Civil War.
Sprawled out over 570 acres, the site is a memorial to the three day long battle that began on New Year’s Eve 1862 and ended with a loss for the Confederacy. Despite the battlefield’s expanse, less than twenty per cent of the three-thousand-plus acres where the battle was fought.
Stones River National Battlefield incorporates Stones River National Cemetary, which covers just over 20 acres and includes 6,850 graves.
The site was erected under the moniker Stones River National Military Park in March of 1927, and was renamed Stones River National Battlefield in April of 1960 when it was moved from the purview of the War Department (now the Department of Defence) to the National Park Service.
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Posted by RussJohnson
on May 19 2010. Filed under About Murfreesboro, TN, Murfreesboro Tourism.
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