Battle of Corinth Battery F - Corinth, MS
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N 34° 56.864 W 088° 33.165
16S E 358212 N 3868347
Battle of Corinth Battery F - 1st Day October 3, 1862. This is one of the Civil War battlefields around Corinth for the railroad system.
Waymark Code: WM2KNB
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 11/17/2007
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The South suffered a strategic disaster when Corinth and its railroads fell to Union forces on May 30, 1862. The destruction of the Union force garrisoned in Corinth and recapture of this rail center quickly became vital Confederate objectives. In late September, 22,000 troops under Maj. Gens. Earl Van Dorn and Sterling Price marched toward Corinth to accomplish this.
On the morning of October 3, the Confederates attacked from the northwest, driving in Union pickets and slowly pushing the stubbornly resisting Union infantry toward town. When darkness halted the fighting the Union troops had fallen back to the town's Inner defense, within a few hundred yards of the railroad crossing Soldiers of both armies lay exhausted from extreme heat, almost no drinking water, and violent battle.
Throughout the night, commanders of bath sides redeployed forces to meet the decisive struggle that would begin in the morning.
This 5-gun Union battery stood between the attacking Confederates and Corinth's inner defenses. As the Battle of Corinth progressed, Confederate troops of Brig. Gen. Dabney H. Maury's division crossed the railroad and attacked from the north; Maj. Gen. Mansfield Lovell's division swung around to the south and flanked the battery. Faced with this indefensible position the Federals abandoned Battery F and withdrew to Corinth's inner defensive works.
Name of Battle:
Battle of Corinth
Name of War: Civil War
Entrance Fee: Not Listed
Parking: Not Listed
Date(s) of Battle (Beginning): Not listed
Date of Battle (End): Not listed
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Visit Instructions:
Post a photo of you in front of a sign or marker posted at the site of the battle (or some other way to indicate you have personally visited the site.
In addition it is encouraged to take a few photos of the surrounding area and interesting features at the site.