Battle at Stones River

Stones River National Battlefield preserves key portions of the ground where two great armies of Americans, some 81,000 men, clashed in a bitter three-day struggle that erupted on New Year's Eve 1862. The final chapter of the Battle of Stones River raged at the McFadden Farm along the frozen banks of Stones River on January 2, 1863, when attacking Confederate troops approached McFadden's Ford, a river crossing below this hill, and were smashed by the concentrated cannon fire of 57 Federal guns placed on this knoll.

Murfreesboro, Tennessee · United States