BIGGS "Tactical Perfection: Forrest at Brice's Crossroads" is the subject of the talk being presented by author and lecturer Gregory G. Biggs of Clarksville, Tennessee, on Monday, May 22, at the meeting of the Civil War Round Table of Washington.

As a descendant of a Confederate soldier and growing up in Georgia, though originally from Chicago, Biggs got a different perspective on the war due to recently having lived in the north where most Civil War speakers present Union talks. This spurred him into doing Confederate programs that he has presented throughout the country.

Biggs, who attend the University of Tampa, Florida, and Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas with a major in journalism, is author of forthcoming books on Georgia Civil War flags and Tennessee flags. He is a former associate editor of Blue & Gray magazine, publishing numerous articles and making research contributions to books by Wiley Sword, Larry Daniel, Gordon Rhea, and the Georgia Capitol Museum flags book. He is president of Clarksville, Tennessee, Civil War Round Table and Friends of the Ft. Donelson Campaign.

Besides his War Between the States involvement, Biggs runs a small music collectables company that specializes in classic and progressive rock with customers all over the world. He has been in the music industry in one form or another since 1971.

In June, 1864, William T. Sherman was well on his way to taking Atlanta. As commander of the Military Division of the Mississippi, he was worried about his thin line of supply back to Louisville, Kentucky, and with good reason. Confederate cavalryman Nathan Bedord Forrest was the target of his concern and Sherman made elaborate provisions to keep him off that line of supply. Several military campaigns out of Memphis were aimed specifically towards that objective, including that of early June led by Gen. Samuel Sturgis. This culminated in the Battle of Brice's Crossroads where, outnumbered two to one, Forrest, using a double envelopment of Sturgis' lines, routed the Union force bent on his own destruction. It was the most tactically perfect battle of the war and one still studied by professional soldiers to this day.

The meeting will begin at 6 p.m. at Watchmaker's Restaurant in the Fitzpatrick Hotel in downtown Washington with dinner for $10 per person. No reservation is necessary.