Brices Crossroads Battlefield

[Greendoor]

How many actual tour stops are at Brices Crossroads? Is their a map online that shows me tour stops? Planning on taking a trip to Shiloh Battlefield and wanted to stop at Brices Crossroads. My GG Grandfather was a Pvt. in the 2nd NJ Cavalry. A unit who were engaged at Battle of Brices Crossroads. Thanks.

 

[Booner]

Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site (U.S. National Park Service)

The Confederate victory at Brices Cross Roads was a significant victory for Major General Nathan Bedford Forrest, but its long term effect on the war proved costly for the Confederates. Brices Cross Roads is an excellent example of winning the battle, but losing the war.

www.nps.gov

 

[lupaglupa]

It's not a particularly exciting driving tour, and some of the stops are hard to find (we had to turn around a couple of times because we only saw the markers as we passed them). The Mississippi Final Stands Center is worth a visit. The site in Tupelo, much as I love Tupelo, is just a roadside park with a couple of information panels. The battlefield itself is completely built over. In between Shiloh and Baldwyn where Brice's Crossroads is you will pass through Corinth. The battlefield park itself is fairly small but the interpretive center is well done.

 

[Greendoor]

It's not a particularly exciting driving tour, and some of the stops are hard to find (we had to turn around a couple of times because we only saw the markers as we passed them). The Mississippi Final Stands Center is worth a visit. The site in Tupelo, much as I love Tupelo, is just a roadside park with a couple of information panels. The battlefield itself is completely built over. In between Shiloh and Baldwyn where Brice's Crossroads is you will pass through Corinth. The battlefield park itself is fairly small but the interpretive center is well done.

You said some stops are hard to find. Were you using a pamphlet for an auto stop tour? Is the battlefield more than 20 stops? Thanks.

 

[lupaglupa]

I downloaded something from the internet and used it as our guide. I didn't keep it so I don't know where it came from.

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

How many actual tour stops are at Brices Crossroads? Is their a map online that shows me tour stops? Planning on taking a trip to Shiloh Battlefield and wanted to stop at Brices Crossroads. My GG Grandfather was a Pvt. in the 2nd NJ Cavalry. A unit who were engaged at Battle of Brices Crossroads. Thanks.

I haven't been up there since about 2008, and it was a challenge finding any markers back then.
The actual NPS site/monument was underwhelming 17 years ago. The highlight of my visit was unexpectedly encountering the late
Ed Bearss leading one of his Civil War tours.

I've been told ... there have been major improvements with public interpretation of Brice's Crossroads since then.

And I'll agree with @lupaglupa, the Mississippi Final Stands Center is well worth a visit. (at least it was in 2008).

Hopefully, CWT members from that area can provide some updates.

 

[J C J Barefoot]

My great great grandfather Henry Basor of the Ohio 72nd and his brother in law John Purcell were captured by Forrest at Brices Cross Road, Several years ago I made the trip to Shiloh and Vicksburg to visit the spots where the 72nd fought and then made the that trip to Gun Town. There are not a lot of stops , that is correct-- yet I spent two hours walking the ledges and grounds and you can get an excellent feel for the brilliance of just what Forrest did and how tough it was for the Union left. It is well worth the visit. When I was there the confederate cemetery had been vandalize and some of the graves dishonored. It was the time when

By the way Henry Basor and John Purcel were taken to Andersonville. Purcell died at Andersonville and is there buried. Basor returned to NW Ohio and lived out his life in in faith as the rector of the Methodist Church He died in 1921 a resected veteran of the G.A.R.