Army of the Cumberland, June 24, 1863

The Tullahoma Campaign lasted eleven days and cost the Union about 550 casualties, which is why it gets overlooked. Rosecrans had sat at Murfreesboro for months despite Lincoln's prodding. When he moved on June 23, he went around Bragg rather than at him, feinting at Shelbyville while the main force pushed through the hill gaps to cut the railroad behind the Confederates. Rain slowed him, so Bragg escaped, but he had to abandon Middle Tennessee. The Federals took 1,634 prisoners and secured the farm country for the Union.

What the plaque says

Army of the Cumberland June 24, 1863 Moving to Bradyville, 14 mi. S.E., the XXI Corps (T.L. Crittenden) advanced against minor Confederate resistance on Manchester, to rendezvous with the rest of the Army under cover of Granger's feint at Shelbyville. This flanked the Army of Tennessee out of its position in the Duck River heights and caused withdrawal to Chattanooga.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Stones River National Battlefield — 1.2 mi
  The Murfreesboro battlefield of December 1862, with a national cemetery built by Black soldiers, a Trail of Tears route and the story of the freedmen's settlement called Cemetery.
• Carnton — 25 mi
  The McGavock farm in Franklin, worked by 44 enslaved people in 1860, that became the largest field hospital of the Battle of Franklin.
• Henry Horton State Park — 25 mi
  A Duck River park on Governor Henry Horton's former farm in Marshall County, with a mill ruin from 1845, kayak floats and the grave of a governor the House declined to impeach.
• Andrew Jackson's Hermitage — 27 mi
  Andrew Jackson's cotton plantation east of Nashville, where visitors can walk to the quarters, Alfred's Cabin and the Enslaved Cemetery as well as the mansion.

More markers nearby

• Murfreesboro/Rutherford County — 0.7 mi
• Chalmers' Brigade at Murfreesboro — 0.9 mi
• Donelson's Brigade at Murfreesboro — 0.9 mi
• "Charles Egbert Craddock" — 0.9 mi