Birdsong's Ferry, located approximately 10-1/2 airline miles northeast of presentday Bovina on the Big Black River, was a well-used river crossing in 1863. The ferry was on the main road between Brownsville (on the Brownsville Road, 9 miles to the east) and Oak Ridge (on the Benton Road, 7.6 miles to west-northwest), and thusprovided a direct route from Brownsville to the northeast approaches to Vicksburg.

This site has local significance because of its association with military activities and events that achieved or affected important local objectives of the Vicksburg campaign.