Lexington , Ky to Forrest City, Arkansas
June 23rd 2011 June 23, 2011 Thursday
Drove to Memphis today stopping at the Parkers Crossroads Battlefield near Wildersville, Tennessee. General Forrest was returning from tearing up railroads and capturing federal supply trains, then burning what they could not carry. Northwest of Parkers Crossroads where present day I 40 is they were overtaken by a Union force intent on "killing or capturing " Forest. Aft
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