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After the Union army occupied Murfreesboro, Tennessee in January 1863, Major General William S. Rosecrans,, Commander of the Army of the Cumberland, gave his chief engineer Brigadier General USV James St. Clair Morton, , 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.