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Tupelo National Battlefield, in Tupelo, Mississippi , commemorates the July 13-14, 1864, Battle Of Tupelo in which Lieutenant General Nathan Bedford Forrest tried to cut the railroad supplying the Union's march on Atlanta.


ADMINISTRATIVE HISTORY

Established as Tupelo National Battlefield Site February 21 , 1929 ; transferred from the War Department August 10 , 1933 ; redesignated and boundary changed August 10 , 1961 . Listed on the National Register Of Historic Places on October 15 , 1966 . Administered by the Natchez Trace Parkway .


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