You searched for Postal Code: 38824
Showing results 1 to 5 of 5
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1PPL_interpretive-sites_Baldwyn-MS.html
Welcome to the Mississippi's Final Stands Interpretive Center. After visiting our museum gallery, we hope that you will tour the Brice's Crossroads and Tupelo battlefields for yourself, with the help of our audio tour and roadside signage.
The …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LD0_twentymile-bottom_Baldwyn-MS.html
Twentymile Bottom, now cultivated, was typical of the many low areas along streams through which the Natchez Trace passed.
In 1812 Reverend John Johnson stopped at Old Factors Stand, near this bottom, and wrote this account of bottomlan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM162I_spoils-of-war_Baldwyn-MS.html
As Confederate cannon rained fire on exhausted Union troops waiting to cross Tishomingo Creek, a somewhat orderly retreat turned into a panicked rout. Soldiers swam across the creek, bypassing thee clogged and bottlenecked bridge and ran into the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM162F_tishomingo-creek-bridge_Baldwyn-MS.html
The Federal retreat at the Battle of Brice's Crossroads was funneled onto a small bridge across Tishomingo Creek. The structure was too narrow for Sturgis' Expeditionary Force, and the span quickly became a bottleneck as horses, wagons, cannon, an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM162C_chief-tishomingo_Baldwyn-MS.html
Long before Civil War soldiers fought at this site in 1864, this land was part of the Chickasaw Nation. Tishomingo, whose name derived from the Chickasaw title tishu minko meaning "speaker for the chief" or "assistant chief" in the Chickasaw langu…