Bush's Ford, located 11.7 airline miles northeast of present-day Bovina, was a relatively well-used crossing of the Big Black River in 1863. The ford provided a convenient alternate route between Oak Ridge (on the Benton Road, 6.5 miles to the east) and Brownsville (on the Brownsville Road, 9.7 miles to the east). Thus, it provided an alternative to the use of Birdsong's Ferry to travel from Brownsville to 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.