Alt Text Map of Stones River National Battlefield in Tennessee. The park is relatively small and pale green within a larger tan, roughly bean-shaped, vertically oriented area on the left half of the map. Surrounding areas are pale yellow, highways are shown as red lines, and named roads indicated with black lines. Extended Description The tan shading represents the extent of the original battle. Just east of that area is Fortress Rosecrans, which is shaded gray, and the town of Murfreesboro just southeast of that. Dates in the battle area show that the events took place from the south to the north. After starting with the park, this description will work from the bottom up and then turn to the surrounding areas. Inside the Battle Area Most roads running through the battle area travel diagonally from the bottom right to the top left. From south to north, these include Interstate 24, Medical Center Parkway, Wilkinson Pike, Gateway Boulevard, W College Street, and New Nashville Highway, which is also labeled US Routes 41 and 705. Thompson Lane, also labeled State Route 268 to the east and Gresham Lane in the southwest corner run vertically through the park and Asbury Road in the northeast region and State Route 96, also labeled Franklin Road and then Old Fort Parkway, crosses the park horizontally in the lower southeast area. At the top center of the fighting area is the Stones River National Battlefield, shaded in pale green. W College Street runs near its northeast edge. Thompson Lane makes up most of its eastern border and Wilkinson Pike borders the south. Five tour stops are numbered in green circles. The first four stops are along a black line that leads from the Visitor Center at the northern end of the park down south past 3, 2, and then 1. Number 5 is the Hazen Brigade Monument to the northeast. Pioneer Brigade Earthworks Trail, Boundary Trail, and Cotton Field Trail make a loose grid across the park. National Cemetery is just north, across W College Street. A gray dashed line cuts vertically through the park from Wilkinson Pike, across W College Street, New Nashville Highway, and across the railroad tracks to a second pale green area. The line is labeled Historic Trace of McFadden’s Lane, which becomes Van Cleve Lane north of the highway. In that second park area is tour stop #6 at Artillery Monument, a site marked Union artillery position, and McFadden Farm. McFadden’s Ford crosses the Stones River on the east side of this section of the park. Shifting now to the south to follow the timeline of the battle, the McCulloch House site (Hardee Headquarters) is at the southernmost tip of the bean-shaped area below Interstate 24. This and almost all the sites mentioned here are shown in gray. Text in dark red follows Confederate troop movements and blue text the Union forces. The action begins near the McCulloch House site, south of State Route 96. Red text reads, “December 31, 1862, dawn: Battle started on Franklin Road when Confederate troops overwhelmed the Union right flank.” Moving north, red text between Interstate 24, Medical Center Parkway, and Thompson Lane reads, “December 31, 1862, early morning: Confederate troops assaulted Union right flank; heavy fighting near Harding House.” The sites of Harding House and Brick Kiln are just across Medical Center Parkway. Blue text near those sites, which are south of Wilkinson Pike, reads, “December 31, 1862, mid-morning: Union forces bought time for the army to regroup with intense fighting on both sides of Wilkinson Pike.” The Gresham House site (Union field hospital), Jenkins House site (temporary Union field hospital), and Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce lie to the west of the blue text and Blanton House site is just across the pike. Tucked under Asbury Road in the northwest corner, blue text reads “December 31, 1862, noon: Union troops made a determined stand along Nashville Pike and in Round Forest, protecting their lifeline to Nashville.” The Widow Burris House (Union field hospital) is north of this, and Stones River National Battlefield is to the east. The General Bragg Headquarters Site (Bragg 2nd Headquarters site), Cowen House site, Wayne’s Hill (Confederate artillery position), and Harkers Crossing on the river lie east of Thompson Lane. Hooking over the northern lobe of the battle area, three blurbs start with red text, “January 2, 1863, afternoon: A Confederate bayonet charge drove Union troops from their hillside positions east of Stones River.” The blue text beneath this reads, “January 2, 1863, dusk: Massed Union artillery fire crushed the Confederate attack,” and the last of this text, in red, reads, “January 3, 1863: Confederates withdrew from the battlefield and Murfreesboro.” Around the Battle Area The gray-shaded Fort Rosecrans lies just east of the battle area. Dark gray lines surrounding this represent the original extent of the fortress. NW Broad Street, which had been New Nashville Highway, as well as W College Street and Medical Center Parkway cross through this area. Labeled here are Redoubt Brennan and a parking area. Close to the perimeter of the fortress boundary and down the west edge there are three more parking areas, the James House site (Polk Headquarters), Old Fort Golf Course, Lunette Palmer, Curtain Wall No. 2, Lunette Thomas, Old Fort Park, and, slightly north, Bragg 1st headquarters (site). Blue text east of the fortress reads, “January 5, 1863: Union Army occupies Murfreesboro” and a second note is above, “January-June 1863: Union constructed Fortress Rosecrans as supply depot for planned capture of rail junctions at Chattanooga and Atlanta.” In the town of Murfreesboro, in the lower right corner of the map, are Evergreen Cemetery with graves of Confederate soldiers, Lytle Creek Greenway, Historic Rutherford County Courthouse, and Key United Methodist Church, which was the site of Earnshaw School and James Chapel. Legend A legend in the top right corner of the map begins with the text, “Features from the time of the battle—road names, structures, and Fortress Rosecrans—are shown in gray. Some of these features can still be seen today. Please respect private property” and “Shaded area indicates extent of original battle.” A scale below measures distances of 0.5 kilometers and 0.5 miles. The legend reads as follows: Green circle around a white number for Tour stop, Pale green for Stones River National Battlefield, Gray lines for Original extent of Fortress Rosecrans, Black dashed line for Trail, Brown dashed line for Stones River/Lytle Creek greenways, and A brown capital letter P for Parking area for Stones River/Lytle Creek greenways.