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Other Name: Tishomingo Creek
State: Mississippi
Location: Prentiss County and Union County
Campaign: Forrest’s Defense of Mississippi (1864)
Dates: June 10, 1864
Principal Commanders: union  Union States: Brig. Gen. Samuel D. Sturgis
confederate  Confederate States: Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest
Forces Engaged: union  Union States: Three-brigade division of infantry and a division of cavalry (about 8,500 )
confederate  Confederate States: cavalry corps
Estimated Casualties: union  Union States: 2,610
confederate  Confederate States: 495
Total: 3,105 total
Results: Result(s): Confederate victory
Description:

At the beginning of June 1864, Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest set out with his cavalry corps of about 2,000 men to enter Middle Tennessee and destroy the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, which was carrying men and supplies to Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman in Georgia. On June 10, 1864, Forrest’s smaller Confederate force defeated a much larger Union column under Brig. Gen. Samuel Sturgis at Brices Cross Roads. This brilliant tactical victory against long odds cemented Forrest’s reputation as one of the foremost mounted infantry leaders of the war.
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