Tullahoma served as the headquarters and logistics center of the Confederate Army of Tennessee for the first six months of 1863 after the Battle of Murfreesboro, and at least three hospitals there treated soldiers wounded in Gen. Braxton Bragg’s 1862 and 1863 engagements or suffering from disease, illness, or injury. More than 500 soldiers from virtually every Confederate state who were killed or died near Tullahoma are buried here. Wooden headboards first marked the graves, but the individual markers were soon lost, and the burial ground became essentially a mass grave. On August 10, 1889, Col. Matthew Martin of the 23rd Tennessee Infantry, CSA, deeded the property to a board of trustees to maintain the cemetery, requiring that each trustee be either a true Confederate soldier or a descendant of a sympathizer. The deed also barred burials after 1889 unless the dead had been killed or had died in actual service of the Confederate States of America and their friends wished their remains moved there. In 1900, the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected the iron entrance gate and fence, and in 1964 the Tennessee Civil War Centennial Commission erected the main monument. Beginning in 1992, the Benjamin F. Cheatham Camp No. 72, Sons of Confederate Veterans, researched those buried there through muster rolls and other records and ultimately identified more than 380 of the men. The Tullahoma Confederate Association continues to maintain the cemetery.