Battle of Tuscumbia

Battle of Tuscumbia is a Tennessee historical marker in MADISON COUNTIES, McNairy County.

McNairy Co., Wolf-Pen Rd., and October 5, 1862 Tuscumbia River Bridge in southwest McNairy County. HISTORICAL MARKERS INVENTORY DIVISION 4. DISTRICT D CROCKETT, DECATUR, HAYWOOD, HENDERSON, MADISON COUNTIES

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After heavy fighting and defeat at Corinth, Mississippi, Confederate Gen. Earl Van Dorn's army, en route to Ripley, Mississippi, crossed the river near here at Young's Bridge. Watson's Battery and Gen. John S. Bowen's brigade, 15th and 16th Mississippi Infantry, furnished rear guard against pursuing Federals under Gen. James B. McPhearson. After successfully holding off Union troops, Bowen's men burned the bridge and made their escape. Federal casualties remain unknown. Confederates reported twelve wounded and three killed.

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1796 · Map of The Tennassee (sic) Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1797 · Tennassee Government. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1835 · Chickasaw Cession, Mississippi (1835) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1848 · United States. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Kentucky And Tennessee (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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Battle of Tuscumbia

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