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After the Union army occupied Murfreesboro, Tennessee in January 1863, Major General William S. Rosecrans, Template:Cullum, Commander of the Army of the Cumberland, gave his chief engineer Brigadier General USV James St. Clair Morton, Template:Cullum, the job of designing and constructing what became Fortress Rosecrans. Morton planned a large enclosed fortification of over 200 acres that occupied both the north and south sides of the Stones River at Murfreesboro and included an important road junction and a rail line.