Battle of Stones River: The Forgotten Conflict between the Confederate Army of Tennessee and the Union Army of the Cumberland

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General Braxton Bragg in Montgomery, Alabama, in the summer of 1862. (Confederate Museum, New Orleans, La.) Major General William S. Rosecrans usually had his photograph taken from the left in order to hide a disfiguring prewar scar on his right cheek. (United States Army Military History Institute, Carlisle Barrack, Pa.) Union cabins on the grounds of the Rutherford County Courthouse. (Albert Gore Research Center, Middle Tennessee State University.) The Nashville Turnpike as seen in the 1880s. (Stones River National Battlefield Park, Murfreesboro, Tenn.) A 1928 image from the Widow Smith House facing towards Carlin’s position in the woods. (Stones River National Battlefield Park, Murfreesboro, Tenn.) Remains of the brick kiln at the Harding House. (Stones River National Battlefield Park, Murfreesboro, Tenn.) A 1928 image from the Wilkinson Pike facing toward the V between Sheridan and Negley. (Stones River National Battlefield Park, Murfreesboro, Tenn.) Assault of Samuel Beatty’s brigade near the Nashville Turnpike. (From Robert Underwood Johnson and Clarence Clough Buel, eds., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War: Being for the Most Part Contributions by Union and Confederate O∞cers (New York: Century Co., 1887–88). Rosecrans’s Last Line. In the foreground are Loomis’s and Guenther’s batteries at the sight of the present-day National Cemetery. (From Johnson and Buel, eds., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.) A 1928 image from the position of the Cowan House showing the field over which Chalmers’s brigade attacked. Cruft’s brigade held the woods in the distance. (Stones River National Battlefield Park, Murfreesboro, Tenn.) The artillery monument on McFadden’s Hill as seen in 1928. (Stones River National Battlefield Park, Murfreesboro, Tenn.) McFadden’s Ford in the 1880s. (From the Collections of Dayton History, Kern Collection.) The charge of Negley’s division across Stones River on January 3 as depicted by Alfred E. Matthews. (From Johnson and Buel, eds., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.) Henry Lovie’s sketch of Negley’s January 2 assault. (Stones River National Battlefield Park, Murfreesboro, Tenn.) The advance of Moses Walker’s brigade on the evening of January 2. (From Johnson and Buel, eds., Battles and Leaders of the Civil War.) ...