Location Tupelo, Mississippi Governing body National Park Service Area 4,047 m² Established February 21, 1929 | Visitors 614 (in 1983) Address Tupelo, MS 38801, USA Phone +1 662-680-4025 Management National Park Service | |
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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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Administrative history
Originally established as the Tupelo National Battlefield Site on February 21, 1929, it was then transferred from the War Department on August 10, 1933, and later redesignated and the boundary changed on August 10, 1961. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966, and is maintained by the National Park Service.
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