Setting Up the Brices Cross Roads Campaign

In the late spring of 1864, Confederate Maj. Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest was tasked with hindering Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's campaign against Atlanta by destroying the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad. General Parker Hills and Dr. Chris Mackowski set up Brices Cross Roads for us from The Cunningham House in Booneville, Mississippi. #BricesCrossRoadsBattlefieldTour

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[citizenbobx]

"Any time I came up 'gainst one a them book-learned generals, I whupped him before he got his tune pitched."

[williambullock]

Great job as always.

Forest fighting anywhere but Sherman’s supply line was a strategic defeat.

[inthedarkwoods]

Brice's Cross Roads was Forrest's masterpiece and his legacy. However, the following Battle of Tupelo was his embarrassment.

[wesleydiehl]

I loved all of the Western Theater videos! Shiloh is my favorite Civil War Battlefield and I gained some new insights for the battle from the videos. However, my favorite video was the intro to Brice's Crossroad when Parker Hills described Forrest's plan for the battle.

[outdoorlife]

Forrest was probably the smarts general on either side. His 35 men were his vanguard for the most part. He leads by example and he knows one simple rule, a smaller force if it stands it's ground and attacks can move a larger force. Another example is Jackson in the Shenandoah

[mykofreder]

Looking at the battle the math is not on the side of the Confederate and I don't see what they expected to accomplish. Under 10000 totally involved and fewer than 1000 killed and wounded, even if they accomplished something they did not have the troops to hold anything, you disrupt not cut supply lines with raids that you skedaddle from afterwards. Hoods raids, with a lot more troops, as he moved from Atlanta to Nashville was far more effective. This was the biggest battle Forrest actually did something in after 62 (I don't consider poking around the edges and capturing people out of position significant in a major battle) and he accomplished nothing because he was out numbered, the initial fight and rout was on more or less equal term and that's why it happened, he would have never ventured near the eventual numbers of Federals. I will take a pass on self-promoting, blowhard, racist excrement commentary, but I don't understand someone calling Forrest an A lister and Sheridan a D lister, Sheridan name is all over major not minor actions in the east after Grant gets there. So, Sheridan is linked with Grant on being a winner or loser, Forest was minor league raider having no more total troops involved in his actions as Grant and Sheridan had casualties.