# Brice's Crossroads Claim Map

## Official record

- Brices Cross Roads is recognized through National Park Service battlefield/monument materials.
- The battle occurred near Guntown/Baldwyn, Mississippi.

## Documented battlefield history

- June 10, 1864: Nathan Bedford Forrest defeated a larger Union force under Samuel Sturgis near Guntown, Mississippi.
- Forrest used artillery aggressively and ordered guns forward during the fighting.
- The Union retreat became chaotic around Tishomingo Creek.
- Battlefield dead and burials became part of the aftermath.

## Family tradition

- Uncle Frank's family owned land connected to the Union approach to Brice's Crossroads.
- Uncle Frank had two Black farm hands.
- One of Frank's Black farm hands reportedly found a Civil War skeleton in a cow pond on the land.
- Aunt Nett later told Kerry that a newer marker was placed at the cemetery at Brice's Crossroads in the unknown Civil War burial section.

## Place memory

- The family account is tied to land associated with the Union approach route.
- The cow pond is remembered as the discovery location, but exact location details are not public.
- The cemetery and unknown Civil War burial section remain to be identified and documented.

## Local lore

- A hidden Union payroll story is connected to the retreat from Brice's Crossroads.
- Kerry remembers a version involving a man who returned after the war missing a leg and an arm and hired locals to dig for the payroll.

## Published-source lead

- Likely article: "Battle for Brice's Crossroads" in *Treasure Found! Magazine*, Fall 1993, possibly volume 17 / Civil War Special.
- Check Lost Treasure / Treasure Hunter archive ecosystems.

## Physical artifact

- Reported unknown-soldier marker at the Brice's Crossroads cemetery.
- Reported Civil War skeleton found in a cow pond.

## Unverified / needs source

- Photo and transcription of the marker.
- Exact cemetery name and section.
- Parcel/location history for Uncle Frank's family land.
- Name of the farm hand who found the skeleton, if recoverable.
- Original treasure-magazine article.
- German officers / military-study story.
- Local battlefield commission or cemetery records.
- Family documents, deeds, maps, letters, or oral-history interviews.
- Kerry interview while details are fresh.

## Public handling

Do not publish exact dig spots, find locations, private-land boundaries, or anything that would encourage looting, trespass, cemetery disturbance, metal detecting, digging, or artifact removal.