If you would like to help with preservation interpretation, please complete
the membership application. If you have questions, please call the visitor's
center at 662-365-3969.
Preservation Update
In 1994, concerned citizens formed the Brice's Crossroads National
Battlefield Commission, Inc. and began working to protect and preserve
additional battlefield land. With assistance from the Civil War Preservation
Trust and the support of Federal, State, and local governments, the BCNBC,
Inc. has purchased for preservation more than 1400 acres of the original
battlefield.
Today the site hosts the Agnew-Ford Group Use Area, which is available for
primitive camping. The site is named for Todd Agnew and Dr. J.M. Ford. Two
interpretive trails, six-tenths of a mile each, feature 5 panels that
explain battle lines and troop movements at the crossroads and at Tishomingo
Creek, site of the Union rout.
The Bethany Cemetery adjacent to the park Service monument site predates the
Civil War. Many of the area's earliest settlers are buried here. The graves
of more than 90 Confederate soldiers killed in the battle are also located
in this cemetery. Union dead from the battle were buried in common graves on
the battlefield, but were later reinterred in the National Cemetery at
Memphis.
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