Tupelo National Battlefield
IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)
Location	Tupelo, Mississippi, USA
Coordinates	34°15′19″N 88°44′14″W / 34.25528°N 88.73722°W / 34.25528; -88.73722Coordinates: 34°15′19″N 88°44′14″W / 34.25528°N 88.73722°W / 34.25528; -88.73722
Area	1 acre (4,000 m²)
Established	February 21, 1929 Established: February 21, 1929
Visitors	614 (in 1983)
Governing body	National Park Service

Tupelo, Mississippi: area map of historic sites

Tupelo National Battlefield, in Tupelo, Mississippi, commemorates the July 13-14, 1864, Battle of Tupelo in which Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest tried to cut the railroad supplying the Union's march on Atlanta.

[edit] Administrative history

Tupelo National Battlefield Monument

Established as Tupelo National Battlefield Site February 21, 1929; transferred from the War Department August 10, 1933; redesignated and boundary changed August 10, 1961. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966. Administered by the Natchez Trace Parkway.

[edit] See also

• Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield - in same area

[edit] References

• The National Parks: Index 2001-2003. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior.

[edit] External links

• National Park Service: Tupelo National Battlefield
• Natchez Trace Compact

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