Monument Text: "This monument is dedicated to the men from Rutherford County who joined the Confederate army of Tennessee and served in the following companies during the war between the states 1861-1865"

Marker Text: "Jan. 2, 1863. 1/2 mile north is the hillock commanding a ford over Stone's River. Here Capt. John Mendenhall, 4th US Artillery, artillery officer on Gen. Crittenden's staff, set a groupment of 58 guns which broke up the assault…

Plaque Text: "Placed in memory of the Rutherford County Boys who gallantly served in the world war by the United Daughters of the Confederacy 'The Brave Beget the Brave.'"

Plaque Text: "Erected to the memory of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest by the Daughters of the Confederacy for Heroic Services rendered the citizens of Murfreesboro on July 13, 1862."

On the third and final day of the Battle of Stones River, Union cannons lined up on the high ground at McFadden's Ford fired upon Confederate soldiers trying to take the high ground. After this bloody exchange, Braxton Bragg's Army of Tennessee…

Monument text: ""Headquarters Army of Tennessee General Braxton Bragg Jan 1,2, and 3 1863."

The Hazen Brigade monument was built in the summer of 1863, making it the oldest Civil War monument still standing in its original place of construction. This monument commemorates the efforts of the men of William B. Hazen's Brigade. Hazen's Brigade…

Monument text: ""Headquarters Army of the Cumberland Maj. Gen. W.S. Rosecrans Jan 1,2, and 3 1863"

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate cavalry commander and slave trader who conducted a well-known cavalry raid on Murfreesboro in July of 1862. Forrest was born in 1831 in Chapel Hill, Tennessee. Prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, he was a…

Nathan Bedford Forrest was a Confederate cavalry commander and slave trader who conducted a well-known cavalry raid on Murfreesboro in July of 1862. Forrest was born in 1831 in Chapel Hill, Tennessee. Prior to the outbreak of the Civil War, he was a…