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River of Blood: The Battle of Stones River

River of Blood: The Battle of Stones River

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In the freezing rain of late December 1862, the United States wasn’t marching toward “inevitable” Union victory—it was teetering on the edge of political and military collapse. With Fredericksburg still bleeding, Union fortunes sagging in the West, and the Emancipation Proclamation only days from taking effect, Abraham Lincoln needed a win badly. That desperate need points the nation’s attention to Middle Tennessee, where two armies coil along the rocky bends of the Stones River outside Murfreesboro. This episode tells the story of Stones River—a battle so brutal that roughly one in three men who fought there became a casualty. Follow the clash of commanders William S. Rosecrans and Braxton Bragg, the near-disaster at dawn on December 31, and the frantic stands that kept the Union army from being cut to pieces: Sheridan in the “Slaughter Pen,” Hazen’s brigade holding the “Round Forest” at “Hell’s Half Acre,” and the haunting “battle of the bands” where enemies traded tunes across the darkness—ending together on “Home, Sweet Home.” The finale is as tragic as it is thunderous: Breckinridge’s “Orphan Brigade” charge on January 2, and the moment Captain John Mendenhall unleashes a massed line of artillery—58 cannons—turning the battlefield into a study in lethal physics. A hard-earned victory. A river of blood. And a turning point the nation might not have survived without.

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