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ABOUT BATTLE FOCUS Mission Statement Through battle studies, Battle Focus a) educates and develops effective and ethical leaders, both military and corporate, and b) enhances teamwork of participating groups.
Leaders Recommending Battle Focus
Seminar and Tour Leader
Publications
Receding
Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg , the Campaigns that Changed the Civil War,
Ed Bearss with Parker Hills, published by National Geographic Society A
Study in Warfighting: Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Brice's
Crossroads, Parker Hills, published by Blue and Gray Education Society Vicksburg
Campaign Driving Tour Guide,
Warren Grabau and Parker Hills, published by Friends of the Vicksburg Campaign
and Historic Trail Art of Commemoration: Vicksburg National Military
Park, Parker Hills, a tour of the art, architecture, artists and history of the monuments of Vicksburg National Military Park Contact Information E-Mail: parker@battlefocus.com Phone: (601) 924-5666 Toll Free: (800) 768-6623 Fax: (601) 924-2299 Web Site: www.battlefocus.com Battle Focus Schedules & Client Comments
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Parker
Hills served almost 32 years in the U.S. Army uniform in active and reserve
components, and retired as a brigadier general, Mississippi Army National Guard
in 2001. He owns Battle Focus, a leadership training company, and
trains soldiers, Marines, airmen, tourists, and corporate leaders. He
holds an undergraduate degree in commercial art from the University of Southern
Mississippi; a Master’s degree in educational psychology from Sul Ross State
University; and is a 1995 graduate of the U.S. Army War College. He has
served as president of Friends of the Vicksburg Campaign and Historic Trail,
president of Friends of Raymond, chair of the Mississippi Civil War Battlefield
Commission, and is chair of the Mississippi Sesquicentennial of the American
Civil War Commission. He is the author of A Study in Warfighting:
Nathan Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Brice’s Crossroads; co-author of
the Vicksburg Campaign Driving Tour Guide; co-author with Edwin C. Bearss
of Receding Tide: Vicksburg and Gettysburg; a contributor to Vicksburg:
Mississippi Blitzkrieg; and author of Vicksburg: Art of Commemoration.
This last work discusses the symbolism behind the art and architecture of the
monuments and memorials in Vicksburg National Military Park. General Hills
has been married to his wife Carol, a native of Hattiesburg, for 43 years.
The Hills reside in Clinton, Mississippi.
