. The twelve decisive battles of the war; a history of the eastern and western campaigns, in relation to the actions that decided their issue . y and central sides energetically pushed forward preparations foraororrcssive action; but Rosecrans was beforehand with hisantagonist, and having, l)y the last week in December,succeeded in accumulating sufficient supplies for a campaign,he beiran the manoeuvres that resulted in the battle of ^lur-frccsboro. The events of this great action now remain to betold. n. THE BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO. CiiKiSTMAS-DAY of the year 18G2 i)assed amid f
. The twelve decisive battles of the war; a history of the eastern and western campaigns, in relation to the actions that decided their issue . y and central sides energetically pushed forward preparations foraororrcssive action; but Rosecrans was beforehand with hisantagonist, and having, l)y the last week in December,succeeded in accumulating sufficient supplies for a campaign,he beiran the manoeuvres that resulted in the battle of ^lur-frccsboro. The events of this great action now remain to betold. n. THE BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO. CiiKiSTMAS-DAY of the year 18G2 i)assed amid festivitiesthat smoothed the wrinkled face of war and lent a whollypeaceful air to the rival camps at Nashville and before daybreak next morning Rosecrans, having com-pleted all his preparations, put his army in motion amid adrenching rain. It advanced in three columns, and skir-mishing began almost from the start, for Braggs superiorityin cavalry enabled him to confine his adversary almost withinhis infantry lines. By the night of the 30th Rosecrans had OF THE BATTLEFIE LD OF MURFREESBORO / uiiiii •. MURFREESBORO Sc/i/i MTRFREESBORO*. 195 fought liis svay into position, facing the army of Bragg,which Avus posted in front of ^lurfrccsboro. The manner inwhich the opposing lines vvcrc drawn will be readily appre-hended from a study of the accompanying map. Stone River, rising in the high country south of Murfrecs-boro, runs nearly north, passes that town a mile to the west,and empties into the Cuml)erland a few miles above Nash-ville. Bragg placed his force on the west side of thatstream, with his line running nearly west and south, but heprolonged his right flank across the river to the east bank,where one division (that of Breckinridge) held the ap-proaches to ]\[urfreesboro from that side. All the rest of theConfederate force, eml)racing four divisions, was placed onthe west side of Stone Kiver. The Union army was disposed entirel}- on the
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