Decoration Day, May 6, 2017
Saturday, May 6, 2017, marked the second annual ‘Decoration Day’ at the Stones River National Battlefield. Approximately 75 people of different races and walks of life participated the 2017 Decoration Day at the Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church as well as the Stones River National Battlefield. Decoration Day began on May…
Clean-up day at Fortress Rosecrans (Old Fort Park), April 1, 2017
Stones River National Battlefield and more than a dozen local partners invite you to join thousands of volunteers as we work together to preserve Civil War, Revolutionary War, and War of 1812 battlefields and historic sites across the nation on Saturday April 1, 2017. Registration begins at 8:30 AM at…
The Stones River National Battlefield celebrates 90 years!
March 3, 1927, Congress authorized money to acquire land for the Stones River National Military Park.
Battlefield tour spotlights Cemetery Community
Nancy De Genarro, The Daily News Journal, February 19, 2017 It’s hard to imagine that homes, barns, vineyards and churches once stood on the stark landscape of native grasses and woods at Stones River National Battlefield. The Cemetery Community settled shortly after the end of the Civil War and was…
Celebration of the community of Cemetery at the Stones River National Battlefield
Saturday, February 18, 2017, Frank Caperton, Vice President of the Friends of the Stones River Battlefield, President of the Rutherford County (Tennessee) Historical Society Murfreesboro physician George Smith sharing stories of the Evergreen Graveyard, located on N.W. Broad Street. Saturday, February 18, 2017 was an incredible celebration of the community…