Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site memorializes the Battle of Brice's Cross Roads, in which a U.S. Army force was defeated by a smaller Confederate force commanded by Major-General Nathan Bedford Forrest on June 10, 1864, but nonetheless secured Union supply lines between Nashville and Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Brices Cross Roads is the only component of the National Park System designated a "battlefield site".

The Old Bethany Cemetery, adjacent to the battlefield site, predates the American Civil War.

The Brices Cross Roads Visitor Center, located in Baldwyn, is owned and operated by a public commission.

[2] The site was established on February 21, 1929, and transferred from the United States Department of War to the National Park Service on August 10, 1933.