Murfreesboro - Stones River 2008 Tour

September 18, 2008 - Murfreesboro (Stones River Battlefield). ... the scene of one of the bloodiest battles of the Civil War. The national parks maintains a visitors center with a walking tour which includes the National Cemetery, the Hazen Brigade Monument and an Artillery monument near McFaddens Ford. In the city of Murfreesboro you'll find Oaklands, a Museum and scene of battle as well as Evergreem Cemetary, the final resting place of many unknow confederate soldiers.

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September 2008 Battlefield Tour - Antietam

September 17, 2008. Dawn, 146 years after ithe first assaults on the cornfield at Sharpsburg. Following in the footsteps of Union and Confederate soldiers, over 100 Civil War enthusiates joined in anniversary walking tours of the Antietam Battlefield. Among the particpants were Jim Marshall, Lou Bishop  and Andy Lolli, members of the Cape May County Civil War Roundtable, the first stop on a seven day tour of battlefields stretching as far as Murfreesboro, Tennessee and Chickamauga, Georgia. [more]