# Brice's Crossroads Sources

## Official record / documented battlefield history

- National Park Service, Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Monument: https://www.nps.gov/places/brices-cross-roads-national-battlefield-monument.htm
- American Battlefield Trust, Brice's Cross Roads battle page: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/civil-war/battles/brices-cross-roads
- American Battlefield Trust, "Fetch Up the Artillery": https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/fetch-artillery

Use these sources for public claims about the June 10, 1864 battle, Nathan Bedford Forrest, Samuel Sturgis, the battle's location near Guntown/Baldwyn, and the artillery-forward tactical story.

## Driving-tour / artillery-charge lead

- NPPlan battlefield driving-tour material reportedly refers to the artillery charge.

Status: source lead retained for follow-up. A stable URL was not pinned during this pass.

## Family memory

- Kerry family tradition: Uncle Frank had two Black farm hands.
- Kerry family tradition: Uncle Frank's family owned land connected to the Union approach to Brice's Crossroads.
- Kerry family tradition: one of Frank's Black farm hands reportedly found a Civil War skeleton in a cow pond on the land.
- Aunt Nett recollection as reported by Kerry: a newer marker was later placed for the story at the cemetery at Brice's Crossroads in the unknown Civil War burial section.

Status: family memory / oral history. Needs marker photo, cemetery section identification, and land-history work.

Public handling: preserve Frank and Nett as family-memory anchors, but do not publish full names until approved.

## Local lore / treasure story

- User-provided source lead: likely article titled "Battle for Brice's Crossroads" in *Treasure Found! Magazine*, Fall 1993, possibly volume 17 / Civil War Special.
- Search expansion: check Lost Treasure and Treasure Hunter-style archives because the remembered magazine title may point to the same treasure-magazine ecosystem.

Status: published-source lead supplied by memory, original article not retrieved during this pass. Do not frame as verified or actionable.

## German visitors / military-study story

- Source hunt: story that German military experts visited or studied Brice's Crossroads, possibly around 1937, or that a later military-study tradition connected German officers to Forrest's tactics.

Status: no reliable public source located during this pass. Keep as lore/source lead.