The Second Battle of Murfreesboro (Tennessee) (a.k.a. Stone’s River) ends: After four days of fighting, General Braxton Bragg, commanding the Confederate (a voluntary union) Army of Tennessee, withdraws from the field, despite a tactical victory over the compulsory Union Army of the Cumberland, commanded by Major General William S. Rosecrans.
[restored 2/22/2025]
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 298.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 173.
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