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Dedicated to
Morton's Battery
Forrest's Artillery
and
John W. Morton, Jr.
Gen. N.B. Forrest's
Chief of Artillery and
the Confederacy's
youngest artillery captain
Morton's Battery fought here
during the Battle of Brice's
Crossroads June 10, 1864, with
four three inch rifled cannon
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Brought at a gallop for some eight miles Morton's and Rice's Batteries were sent forward to a hill and opened with spirit and execution. Gen. Forrest ordered his artillery to be double-shotted with canister and moved to within sixty yards of the Federal lines; about a fourth mile Northeast of Brice's House, opening with great destruction. As the Federals were drawing back toward Tishamingo Creek, Morton's and Rice's Batteries fired with fearful carnage. They charged their batteries up to the enemy and poured a deadly tide of canister with ghastly effect, as the Federals emerged from the creek, Forrest's artillery played upon them for half a mile, killing or disabling large numbers.
Erected by Freeman's Battery
Forrest's Artillery Camp 1939
Sons of Confederate Veterans
June 11, 2005
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