Civil War Earthworks at Tallahatchie Crossing

	Civil War Earthworks at Tallahatchie Crossing
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
	The earthworks in 2018
Location	Off Mississippi Highway 7 north of Abbeville, Mississippi, U.S.
Coordinates	34°33′25″N 89°29′16″W / 34.55694°N 89.48778°W
Built	1862
NRHP reference No.	73001021
Added to NRHP	August 14, 1973

The Civil War Earthworks at Tallahatchie Crossing is a Civil War earthwork in Marshall County, Mississippi. The earthworks are located on federal land owned by the Army Corps of Engineers and consist of eight parapets used for Union cannons, as well as infantry trenches.^[2]

The earthwork was built along the north bank of the Little Tallahatchie River in late 1862 by Union forces to defend the Mississippi Central Railroad and their supplies in Holly Springs as they moved south towards Oxford and ultimately Vicksburg.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ Watson, Sue. "Civil War parapets near old bridge not in danger". The South Reporter. Retrieved February 3, 2019.

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[nris-1] "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

[2] Watson, Sue. "Civil War parapets near old bridge not in danger". The South Reporter. Retrieved February 3, 2019.

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