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The Siege and Battle of Corinth Sites are a National Historic Landmark District encompassing surviving elements of three significant American Civil War engagements in and near Corinth, Mississippi. Included are landscape and battlefield features of the siege of Corinth (April 29 to June 10, 1862), the Second Battle of Corinth (October 3-4, 1862 ...
The siege of Corinth (also known as the first battle of Corinth) was an American Civil War engagement lasting from April 29 to May 30, 1862, in Corinth, Mississippi.A collection of Union forces under the overall command of Major General Henry Halleck engaged in a month-long siege of the city, whose Confederate occupants were commanded by General P.G.T. Beauregard.
Shiloh National Military Park preserves the American Civil War Shiloh and Corinth battlefields. The main section of the park is in the unincorporated community of Shiloh, about nine miles (14 km) south of Savannah, Tennessee, with additional areas located in the city of Corinth, Mississippi, 23 miles (37 km) southwest of Shiloh and the Parker's Crossroads Battlefield in the city of Parkers ...
Plan of the second Battle of Corinth. Along the north and east sides of Corinth, about two miles from the town, was a line of entrenchments, extending from the Chewalla Road on the northwest to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad on the south, that had been constructed by Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard's army before it evacuated the town in May ...
It is the county seat of Alcorn County, which is the smallest county by area in the state of Mississippi. According to the United States Census Bureau , the city has a total area of 30.3 square miles (78.4 km 2 ), of which 30.2 square miles (78.1 km 2 ) is land and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km 2 ), or 0.43%, is water.
Midtown Corinth Historic District is a historic district in Corinth, Mississippi that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. The district then had 229 contributing buildings and one contributing site , as well as 55 non-contributing buildings.
Corinth National Cemetery was established in 1866 as a place to inter the Union casualties of the Second Battle of Corinth, and other battles in the region.By the late 1870s there were over 5,000 interments in the cemetery, nearly 4,000 of which were of unknown dead.
Siege of Corinth (April–June 1862), in Mississippi, U.S. (also known as the First Battle of Corinth) Second Battle of Corinth (October 1862), in Mississippi, U.S. Battle of the Corinth Canal (April 1941), fought as part of the Axis invasion of Greece during World War II