Front:
Confederate Monument
Court House Lawn
Paris, Tennessee
HEKRY IGO.
Back:
"No country ever had truer sons, No cause
nobler champions, No people bolder defen-
ders." The battle of Paris was fought March
11th, 1862, in the vicinity of Forrest Heights, on
the west margin of the city. H. Clay King's
First Kentucky Battalion of Cavalry with
Stack's and McCutchen's unattached com-
panies of Tennessee Cavalry, were the Con-
federate defenders. Confederate losses were
some twenty killed and wounded, the U. S.
Forces lost some sixty to eighty men including
the commander of their Cavalry and the cap-
tain of their battery of artillery.
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THOMPSON'S COMMUNITY SERVICE, 1220 CHICKASAW, PARIS, TENNESSEE
