First clash of cavalry

Battle of Okolona

First clash of cavalry

Okolona, Mississippi 38860, United States

Created By: City of Okolona

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For the next stop, go back the way you came on Church Street, but turn right, almost immediately, onto a gravel road. The road leads to a small baseball grandstand.

Site 6—At any point along the road you can stop to look out to the right over the fields that saw the first clash of cavalry on February 22, 1864. You are headed in the direction of Forrest's charge; a look ahead gives you the view he had charging across at the head of Colonel Barteau's men; a look back toward Church Street gives you the view that the men of McCrillis's Third Brigade had.

This point of interest is part of the tour: Battle of Okolona


 

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