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1. MURFGW_170606_01.JPG: Battle of Stones River Site of Breckinridge's Attack Battle of Stones River Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans led the Army of the Cumberland from Nashville toward Murfreesboro in December 1862, while Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg and the Army of Tennessee occupied the town to protect the approaches to Chattanooga. The armies clashed on December 31, and a flank attack almost swept the Federals from the field. Rosecrans fended off attacks on January 2 and prepared to take the offensive. Bragg, his army exhausted, evacuated Murfreesboro the next day. There were 23,000 total casualties out of 81,000 soldiers engaged -- one of the bloodiest battles of the war. You are facing the scene of the bloody finale of the Battle of Stones River. On the hill in front of you, around 4 pm on January 2, 1863, Union Col. Samuel Beatty and his infantry division braced for an attack. Confederate Gen. John C. Breckinridge's 4,400-man division charged up the hill with bayonets fixed. Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg ordered the attack despite Breckinridge's objections because Bragg could not tolerate Federal cannons on the hill overlooking the main line. To divert attention from the attack, Confederate guns bombarded the Union lines to your left. When the cannon fire lifted, the assault began. Breckinridge's men soon shattered Beatty's line and pursued his retreating division over the hill, but they were met by the fire of 57 Union guns on the west side of the river. The Confederate assault wavered and retreated to the starting point on Wayne Hill. Breckinridge's division lost more than 1,800 men killed or wounded. This action ended the Battle of Stones River. That night, Bragg's subordinates prevailed on him to abandon the fight. Bragg's withdrawal gave the Federals a slim tactical victory that proved to be a critical strategic and political triumph at the beginning of 1863. "The enemy began to flee like blackbirds... Another and another volley was fired as they ascended the slight rise from the works." -- Pvt. Gervis D. Grainger, 6th Kentucky Infantry, CSA "The regiment to our right jumped to their feet as the rebels gave their yell, and I believe one-half fell to the ground as it cut down by a scythe." -- Lt. Marvin B. Butler, 44th Indiana Infantry
2. MURFGW_170606_09.JPG: Confederate soldiers pushed into Union lines with their bayonets. Painting by Gilbert Gaul
3. MURFGW_170606_19.JPG: Bragg's Headquarters Fateful Decisions at Stones River Battle of Stones River Union Gen. William S. Rosecrans led the Army of the Cumberland from Nashville toward Murfreesboro in December 1862, while Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg and the Army of the Tennessee occupied the town to protect the approaches to Chattanooga. The armies clashed on December 31, and a flank attack almost swept the Federals from the field. Rosecrans fended off attacks on January 2 and prepared to take the offensive. Bragg, his army exhausted, evacuated Murfreesboro the next day. There were 81,000 soldiers engaged - one of the bloodiest battles of the war. Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg was troubled as he watched the tents go up here at his new headquarters on January 1, 1863. Before moving his headquarters to this place, he had telegraphed Richmond the previous evening and declared, "God has granted us a happy New Year." He had expected the Union army to be retreating by now. Instead, the Federals were digging trenches and preparing to renew the fight. That night, thousands of Union soldiers - a division under Col. Samuel Beatty - crossed Stones River north of here and positioned themselves on a high hill. The next day, Bragg called Gen. John C. Breckinridge here and ordered him to push the Federals off the hill. Breckinridge argued against the attack, knowing that his men would be exposed the to fire of more than fifty Union cannons on a ridge across the river behind Beatty's position. Bragg refused to change the order. He knew that his only chance to get the victory he had already claimed was to keep Union cannon off Beatty's hill. Although Breckinridge attacked and successfully pushed Beatty back, the Union guns cut the Confederates up badly. The result was a bloody defeat that left more than 1,900 Confederate soldiers laying dead or wounded along the banks of the river. Bragg's subordinates finally persuaded him that the battle was over, and he withdrew from Murfreesboro toward Shelbyville on January 3, 1863. "General Preston, this attack is made against my judgment and by the special orders of General Bragg. Of course we all must try to do our duty and fight the best we can. But if it should result in disaster and I be among the slain, I want you to do justice to my memory and tell the people that I believed this attack to be very unwise and tried to prevent it." -- Gen. John C. Breckinridge.
4. MURFGW_170606_32.JPG: Greenway Trailhead
5. MURFGW_170606_35.JPG: Battle at Stones River December 31, 1862 - January 2, 1863 Stones River National Battlefield preserves some key portions of the ground where two great armies of Americans - some 81,000 men - clashed with each other. Their bitter, three-day struggle erupted on New Year's Eve 1862. To explore their stories, start at the visitor center. Maps are available there to help you find battlefield points of interest. 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.
6. MURFGW_170606_41.JPG: 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.
7. MURFGW_170606_46.JPG: Headquarters Army of Tennessee General Braxton Bragg Jan 1, 2. and 3 1863
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