The Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield site makes us remember the battle of Brices cross roads which took place in 1864. This is one of the battles fought between the confederate and the union army. It is really known for its enormous bloodshed and I must tell you that the confederate’s army was headed by the Nathan Bedford. However you should also know that the size of the union army was quiet large but the confederates were some how able to win the battle. And on June 10, 1864 they were able to secure supply lines between Nashville and the Chattanooga, Tennessee.

This site which is present in extreme northern Lee County is known to preserves only a small piece of land which is not more than one acre of the much larger historic battlefield and this extends northward into southwestern Prentiss County. You must know that this was the spot where the Brice family house stood sometimes in the past. It is situated about 6 miles or 10 km west of Baldwyn, Mississippi, on Mississippi Highway 370. This site also attributes a memorial erected soon after the site’s founding in 1929. In addition, on June 11, 2005, a second memorial was devoted to Confederate Capt. John W. Morton, Chief of Artillery, and his battery. You must know that the Brices Cross Roads is the only National Battlefield Site as far as the list of all the sites under United States National Park System is concerned.

The newly built Bethany Presbyterian Church stands on the southeast side of the crossroads and is really very important. When the battle took place in 1864 then this was the congregation’s meeting house and was located further south along the Baldwyn Road. However, the Bethany Cemetery which is adjacent to the Park Service site marks the Civil War which took place here between the union army and the confederates. Most of the area’s earliest settlers who came here at first are buried here. This cemetery also marks the graves of more than 90 Confederate soldiers who were killed in the battle are also located in this cemetery. Thos soldiers who were dead were also buried in the same cemetery but they were later reinterred in Memphis National Cemetery at Memphis, Tennessee.

You must have heard about many battles being fought between the confederates and the union army. I do feel that you can certainly not forget the Shiloh war which was fought just two years before this war. I must tell you that you will not find better description about those battles than this site.

I must really tell you that you will definitely find this site great to pass some free time and also meanwhile improve your history knowledge.

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