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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DAP_battle-of-brices-cross-roads_Guntown-MS.html
In Memoryof the Men of theConfederateand theFederal Armieswho took part in theBattle ofBrice's Cross Roadsor Tishimingo CreekJune 10, 1864which resulted ina victory for theConfederate forcesunder BrigadierGeneral N. B. Forrest
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM168C_brices-cross-roads_Guntown-MS.html
By 10:00 a.m. on June 10, 1864, Col. George Waring's Federal cavalry had reached the Cross Roads. The troops deployed on either side of the Baldwyn Road, in the woods at the western edge of a cleared field, one-half mile east of the Cross Roads. S…
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Brig. Gen. Benjamin Grierson's Federal cavalry (3,300 troops) left Stubbs plantation (nine miles northwest of Brice's Cross Roads) at daybreak on June 10, 1864. By 10:00 a.m. the cavalry had reached Brice's Cross Roads and advance units had encoun…
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Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest "owned" northern Mississippi and southwestern Tennessee in mid-1864, but that was not where the war was being won or lost. Port Hudson, Louisiana, and Vicksburg, Mississippi, had fallen in July 1863, giving the Uni…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM166T_confederates-second-battle-line_Guntown-MS.html
Pushing the Union forces back, General Forrest slowly closed his pincers movement, forcing General Sturgis nearer the Crossroads. This line was anchored on the Blackland Road 400 yards northwest. The southern end across the Guntown Road.
Confed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM166R_federal-cavalry-and-artillery-formed-first-battle-line-here_Guntown-MS.html
From 500 hundred yards north and extending more than a mile south, across the Guntown Road, this Line, behind rail fences and dense scrub-oak thickets fought stubbornly as the Confederates pushed on to the Crossroads. Hand to hand fighting along t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM166P_confederates-first-battle-line-formed-here_Guntown-MS.html
at 1:00 o'clock. General Forrest's men were all on the field ready for action.
From a quarter of a mile north and extending more than a mile south across the Guntown Road the Confederates formed a pincers movement against the enemy.
Confeder…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15ZB_old-trace_Saltillo-MS.html
Much of the Old Trace had been abandoned by the start of the civil war. However, the war did leave its mark on the Trace as it did upon the rest of the South, as soldiers marched, camped and fought along portions of this historic old road.
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM159Y_bethany-a-r-p-church_Guntown-MS.html
Organized in 1852 by the Alabama Presbytery, Bethany Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church had a charter membership of twenty-five including four slaves. The church was used as a hospital in 1864 following the Battle of Brice's Cross Roads. The p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMJW5_elvis-presley-and-the-blues_Tupelo-MS.html
Marker Front:Elvis Presley revolutionized popular music by blending the blues he first heard as a youth in Tupelo with country, pop, and gospel.Many of the first songs Elvis recorded for the Sun label in Memphis were covers of earlier blues record…