Artillery Monument

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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 retreated, allowing Union forces to claim victory.

Later on, the President of the Nashville/Chattanooga Railway had this monument commissioned. He was a Confederate soldier during the war.

Based on the monument text, do you think this monument is memorializing the Confederate dead or the Union soldiers who won the day?

Monument text:

"On January 2nd, 1863, at 3:00pm, there were stationed on this hill, fifty-eight cannon, commanding the field across the river, and as the Confederates advanced over this field, the shot and shell from these guns, resulted in a loss of eighteen-hundred, killed and wounded, in less than an hour. Shops of N.C. &St L.Ry. July, 19, 1906."