. History of the American Civil War . hatthey had not time to destroy the bridges on the Jeffersonand Murfreesborough turnpikes. On the 30th, Bragg,finding he was about to be assailed, had concentrated hisarmy a couple of miles in front of Murfreesborough. The position of the national army, which was 43,000position of Eose- strong on the evening of that day, was on cranssarmy. ^ wegt ^ q{ gtone jjj^ ft g^gg^ stream fringed with cedar brakes, and here flowing in anorth-northwesterly course. The line ranged nearly northand south, and was three or four miles in length. Crit-tenden was on its left
. History of the American Civil War . hatthey had not time to destroy the bridges on the Jeffersonand Murfreesborough turnpikes. On the 30th, Bragg,finding he was about to be assailed, had concentrated hisarmy a couple of miles in front of Murfreesborough. The position of the national army, which was 43,000position of Eose- strong on the evening of that day, was on cranssarmy. ^ wegt ^ q{ gtone jjj^ ft g^gg^ stream fringed with cedar brakes, and here flowing in anorth-northwesterly course. The line ranged nearly northand south, and was three or four miles in length. Crit-tenden was on its left, with three divisions, Wood, Van-cleve, Palmer; Thomas in the centre, with two divisions,Negley and Rousseau, the latter in reserve; McCook onthe right, with three, Sheridan, Davis, Johnson. The leftwing touched the river, the right stretched a little be-yond the Franklin Road. Braggs army, 62,000 strong, stood between Rosecransand Murfreesborough, ranged, for the most part, parallel Chap. LIIL] POSITION OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY. 361. BATTLE OF MURFREESBOROUGH. position of the con- to the national line; his right, however, federate army. faced ^^ ^^ Breckinridges division formed his right; in his centre, under Polk, were two di-visions, those of Withers and Cheatham; on his left, un-der Hardee, two divisions, Cleburne and McCown. Theriver separated Breckinridge from the rest of the Confed-erate army. Bosecrans had concentrated two thirds of his force onRopecranss plan of his left. His intention was that his rightwing, standing on the defensive, should sim-ply hold its ground; but his extreme left, the divisionsof Wood and Vancleve, crossing Stone River, should as- 362 THE BATTLE OF MURFREESBOROUGH. [Sect. X. sail Breckinridges division, exposed there, and seize theheights, from which an artillery fire would not only takein reverse the works in front of the enemys centre, butalso enable the national centre, with the remainder of theleft wing, to overthrow it. Meantime the assail
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