Tupelo National Battlefield
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IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)
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| Location | Tupelo, Mississippi, USA |
| Coordinates | 34°15′19″N 88°44′14″W / 34.25528°N 88.73722°WCoordinates: 34°15′19″N 88°44′14″W / 34.25528°N 88.73722°W |
| Area | 1 acre (0.40 ha) |
| Established | February 21, 1929 |
| Visitors | 614 (in 1983) |
| Governing body | National Park Service |
Tupelo National Battlefield, in Tupelo, Mississippi, commemorates the July 14–15, 1864, Battle of Tupelo in which Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest tried to cut the railroad supplying the Union's march on Atlanta.
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[edit] Administrative history
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.
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Categories:
- IUCN Category V
- Battlefields of the Main Western Theater of the American Civil War
- Protected areas of Lee County, Mississippi
- Natchez Trace
- National Battlefields and Military Parks of the United States
- National Register of Historic Places in Mississippi
- Tupelo, Mississippi
- Protected areas established in 1929
- United States National Park Service areas in Mississippi
- Parks in Mississippi
- American Civil War stubs
- United States National Park Service stubs
