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American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
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Battle of Brice's Cross Roads
1864 battle of the American Civil War
The Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, also known as the Battle of Tishomingo Creek or the Battle of Guntown, was fought on Friday, June 10, 1864, near Baldwyn, Mississippi, then part of the Confederate States of America. A Federal expedition from Memphis, Tennessee, of 4,800…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Nathan Bedford Forrest
Confederate States Army general and Ku Klux Klan leader (1821–1877)
Nathan Bedford Forrest was an American slave trader, active in the lower Mississippi River valley, who served as a Confederate States Army general during the American Civil War. Forrest was elected to lead the post-Civil War Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan as its first and only…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Samuel D. Sturgis
United States Army general (1822–1889)
Samuel Davis Sturgis was a senior officer of the United States Army. A veteran of the Mexican War, Civil War, and Indian Wars, he attained the rank of brevet major general.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Mississippi
U.S. state
Mississippi is a state in the Southeastern and Deep South regions of the United States. It borders Tennessee to the north, Alabama to the east, the Gulf of Mexico to the south, Louisiana to the southwest, and Arkansas to the northwest. Mississippi's western boundary is largely…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)