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The waning days of 1862 marked a nadir in the fortunes of the United States.
After major defeats at Fredericksburg in Virginia and Chickasaw Bayou in Mississippi,

it fell to Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans and his Army of the Cumberland
to secure a victory that would give military military teeth to the Emancipation Proclamation.

On the day after Christmas, Rosecrans moved his army southeast,
out of Nashville to Murfreesboro, met Gen. Braxton Bragg’s Army of Tennessee,
with 44,000 men under Rosecrans and 37,000 under Bragg,
locked in some of the hardest fighting of the war.

 

Join the Dan Sickles Civil War Round Table as author Dan Masters focuses not only on strategy, tactics, and high-level command decisions – but also the view from the soldiers who fought the battle using numerous archival and firsthand accounts.