{"id":377,"date":"2024-09-15T15:20:47","date_gmt":"2024-09-15T20:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/?p=377"},"modified":"2024-09-15T15:20:47","modified_gmt":"2024-09-15T20:20:47","slug":"the-battle-of-stones-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/the-battle-of-stones-river\/","title":{"rendered":"The Battle of Stones River"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">As 1862 drew to a close, President Abraham Lincoln was desperate for a military victory. His armies were stalled, and the terrible defeat at Fredericksburg spread a pall of defeat across the nation. There was also the Emancipation Proclamation to consider. The nation needed a victory to bolster morale and support the proclamation when it went into effect on January 1, 1863.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Confederate Army of Tennessee was camped in Murfreesboro, Tennessee only 30 miles away from General William S. Rosecrans\u2019 army in Nashville. General Braxton Bragg chose this area in order to position himself to stop any Union advances towards Chattanooga and to protect the rich farms of Middle Tennessee that were feeding his men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Union General-In-Chief Henry Halleck telegraphed Rosecrans telling him that, \u201c\u2026 the Government demands action, and if you cannot respond to that demand some one else will be tried.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">On December 26, 1862, the Union Army of the Cumberland left Nashville to meet the Confederates. This was the beginning of the Stones River Campaign.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As 1862 drew to a close, President Abraham Lincoln was desperate for a military victory. His armies were stalled, and the terrible defeat at Fredericksburg spread a pall of defeat across the nation. There was also the Emancipation Proclamation to <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/the-battle-of-stones-river\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}