Last updated: May 11, 2021
Place
Tour Stop #3 - Federal Cavalry and Artillery Formed First Battle Line
NPS Photo
Quick Facts
Location:
Mississippi Hwy 370, west of Baldwyn, MS
Significance:
Tour Stop #3 at Brices Cross Roads
Designation:
National Battlefield Site
MANAGED BY:
Amenities
3 listed
Historical/Interpretive Information/Exhibits, Parking - Auto, Wheelchair Accessible
Federal cavalry and artillery formed their first battle line here.
The Federal army battle line extended five hundred yards north and more than a mile south, across the Guntown Road. The soldiers who were behind rail fences and dense scrub-oak thickets fought stubbornly as the Confederates pushed on to the crossroads. Hand to hand fighting occurred along this line.
Federal cavalry and artillery engaged in this line from the northern end of the line; Company H of the 7th Indiana, 4th Missouri; 4th Missouri Battery on the north side of the road; 14th Indiana Battery on the south side of the road along with 7th Indiana, 2nd New Jersey and the 4th and 3rd Iowa Battalion.
The Brice's Crossroads Battlefield main battlefield site is managed by the Mississippi Final Stands Visitor and Interpretative Center in Baldwyn, Mississippi.
The Federal army battle line extended five hundred yards north and more than a mile south, across the Guntown Road. The soldiers who were behind rail fences and dense scrub-oak thickets fought stubbornly as the Confederates pushed on to the crossroads. Hand to hand fighting occurred along this line.
Federal cavalry and artillery engaged in this line from the northern end of the line; Company H of the 7th Indiana, 4th Missouri; 4th Missouri Battery on the north side of the road; 14th Indiana Battery on the south side of the road along with 7th Indiana, 2nd New Jersey and the 4th and 3rd Iowa Battalion.
The Brice's Crossroads Battlefield main battlefield site is managed by the Mississippi Final Stands Visitor and Interpretative Center in Baldwyn, Mississippi.