Battle of Stones River

Oh, you knew that.

[laughs] "And the entire area we live in was part of the Battle of Stones River in the Civil War."

Mm-hmm.

"And we were walking on this land next to where we lived and saw good old boys looking for musket balls with metal detectors."

End of Adam Mickiewicz by Encyclopedia Britannica

The Battle of Stone River by Henry M. Kendall.

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For the next six months little was done, the Union army occupying Murfreesboro and the rebel army a position near Tullahoma.

Then followed the campaign which terminated in the battle of Chickamauga.

End of the Battle of Stone River by Henry M. Kendall Read by Geoffrey Smith

Colonization of Palestine, the Unit System by Boris Katzman.

Acts 15.36-16.40 Devotional Focus Verse And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God, and the prisoners heard them.

Acts 16.25 During the American Civil War, as darkness descended the night before the Battle of Stones River, a Union Army band began to play softly the song, Home Sweet Home.

After a time, a Confederate band began to play along.

Soon, another regimental band joined in, and then another, till all the bands from both sides of the conflict were playing together.

Willich took good care of his men and lectured them on political theory in their downtime, because of course he did.

Willich led the Horn Brigade at Perryville and Stones River in 1862, performing well in both battles.

He was captured at Stones River and held in a Confederate prison camp before being exchanged and returned to his brigade.

The brigade's finest hour was at Chickamauga in 1863.

In the first day of the battle, Willich's brigade drove back an entire Confederate division, utilizing their advance firing to move forward, some said like an iron wall.

So much for the cowardly Flying Dutchmen.

Also joining Sherman's army was Dilger's artillery battery, which probably fired the shot that killed Confederate General Leonidas Polk at Pine Mountain.

So Chancellorsville and Missionary Ridge, Shiloh and Stones River, Antietam and Gettysburg and Atlanta, German units shed blood for the Union on almost every battlefield of the Civil War.

His opponent would now be Major General William Rosecrans, who had replaced Buell when Washington believed he had allowed Bragg to get away from Kentucky unscathed.

The Battle of Stones River or Murfreesboro came the last day of 1862 and the 2nd of January 1863, and it came as Kentuckians under his command simmered over Bragg's retreat from their native state, and particularly over one specific incident.

Asa Lewis of the 6th Kentucky left the Army without permission to attend to some family problems and returned of his own accord.

The disciplinarian in Bragg, despite those who interceded for Lewis, made an example of the Kentuckian and had him executed five days before the battle began for desertion.