Fortress Rosecrans

After the war the fort's ground went back to farming. The City of Murfreesboro bought the site in 1966, the centennial of the fort's abandonment, and in 1993 it passed to the National Park Service as a unit of Stones River National Battlefield. What survives is Lunettes Palmer and Thomas, a curtain wall and Redoubt Brannan, kept in native grasses to stop erosion. The Stones River Greenway, opened in 1997, links the fort, the redoubt and the battlefield. Visitors are asked to stay on the paved trail and boardwalks.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Stones River National Battlefield — 2.2 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.
• Henry Horton State Park — 24 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.
• Tennessee Walking Horse National Celebration — 25 mi
  The Shelbyville show grounds where the Tennessee Walking Horse has been crowned world grand champion each late summer since 1939, and where the practice of soring is part of the story.
• Carnton — 26 mi
  The McGavock farm in Franklin, worked by 44 enslaved people in 1860, that became the largest field hospital of the Battle of Franklin.

More markers nearby

• William Lytle — 0.4 mi
• "Charles Egbert Craddock" — 0.4 mi
• Robert Smith Sanders, M. D. — 0.9 mi
• Hardy Murfree — 0.9 mi