Stones River National Battlefield and Cemetery: 3501 Old Nashville Highway

Before the December 1862 battle, widow Hollie McFadden fled her prosperous nearby farm for safety and returned to find the Army of the Cumberland had confiscated livestock, food, fence rails, and timber. She unsuccessfully applied for compensation of more than $2000. United States Sanitary Commission volunteers Ann Hosmer and Carrie Tinkham delivered supplies and nursed wounded soldiers. Writer Mary Noailles Murfree penned a novel about the aftermath of the battle titled Where the Battle Was Fought (1884). African American members of the Woman’s Relief Corps commemorated Memorial Day at the cemetery for decades. Several women’s heritage groups helped plan the battlefield’s dedication as a national park in 1932.