Last updated: May 11, 2021
Place
Tour Stop #4 - Confederates Second Battle Line at the Battle of Brices Cross Roads
NPS Photo
Quick Facts
Location:
Mississippi Hwy 370, west of Baldwyn, MS
Significance:
Tour Stop #4 at Brices Cross Roads
Designation:
National Battlefield Site
MANAGED BY:
Amenities
3 listed
Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Parking - Auto, Wheelchair Accessible
Confederates Second Battle Line
Pushing the Union forces back, General Forrest slowly closed his pincers movement, forcing General Sturgis' soldiers back towards the crossroads. This Confederate battle line was anchored on the Blackland Road four hundred yards northwest. The southern end of the battle line ran across the Guntown Road.
Confederate units forming this line:
Warren's and Williams' Battalions
4th Alabama
Moreland's 7th Kentucky
3rd Kentucky
8th Kentucky
12th Kentucky
Mortons's and Rices' Batteries
7th Tennessee
18th Mississippi
16th Tennessee
15th Tennessee
19th Tennessee
8th Mississippi
General Forrest's Escort
Companies A and C of the 12th Kentucky
The Brice's Crossroads Battlefield main battlefield site is managed by the Mississippi Final Stands Visitor and Interpretative Center in Baldwyn, Mississippi.
Pushing the Union forces back, General Forrest slowly closed his pincers movement, forcing General Sturgis' soldiers back towards the crossroads. This Confederate battle line was anchored on the Blackland Road four hundred yards northwest. The southern end of the battle line ran across the Guntown Road.
Confederate units forming this line:
Warren's and Williams' Battalions
4th Alabama
Moreland's 7th Kentucky
3rd Kentucky
8th Kentucky
12th Kentucky
Mortons's and Rices' Batteries
7th Tennessee
18th Mississippi
16th Tennessee
15th Tennessee
19th Tennessee
8th Mississippi
General Forrest's Escort
Companies A and C of the 12th Kentucky
The Brice's Crossroads Battlefield main battlefield site is managed by the Mississippi Final Stands Visitor and Interpretative Center in Baldwyn, Mississippi.