In February1861, political opinion was divided in middle Tennessee,
especially Murfreesboro. Opinions varied upon whether or not the
state should secede or remain part of the Union. By June 1861,
however, the choice was clear. Secession, and all the consequences
associated with this course of action, would be the path of
Tennessee. Murfreesboro, like so many other communities in
Tennessee, and the South, would have to live through the tumult of
Civil War.
Units were raised in Murfreesboro and the town saw a great deal
of action during the War. Authors Michael Bradley and Shirley
Farris Jones look at Murfreesboro in the Civil War chronologically,
beginning with Union occupation in the spring of 1862, Forrest's
raid on the town in July 1862, Confederate re-occupation in the
fall of that year, the visit of Jefferson Davis to the town, and
the wedding of General John Hunt Morgan to Martha Ready. The battle
of Stones River, life under the subsequent Union occupation, and
the significant ways it affected Murfreesboro, are pulled into
sharp focus. The return of the Confederate army during the
Nashville Campaign led to more fighting around Murfreesboro, and
more trouble for the local citizenry.
The final chapter examines life at the end of the war, showing
the economic and social changes in the town. This chapter includes
the establishment of the National Cemetery at Stones River and the
Confederate burial site at Evergreen Cemetery where the Southern
dead from Stones River are interred.
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