Fort Robinett Confederate Cemetery -- Corinth MS
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N 34° 56.273 W 088° 31.746
16S E 360355 N 3867221
A small Confederate cemetery at the site of Battery Robinett, the bloodiest fighting at the Battle of Corinth, now preserved as part of the Corinth Interpretive Center
Waymark Code: WMNW15
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 05/09/2015
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member bluesnote
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Six marked graves for unknown Confederate dead and and two large tombstones for fallen Texans Brigadier General Joseph Hogg and Col. William P. Rogers dot the hill east of Battery Robinett, the site of the fiercest fighting during the Battle of Corinth in 1862.

From the Find-a-grave website: (visit link)

"Cemetery notes and/or description:

As of June 1998 all of the ground consisting of Fort Robinette, including the UDC Confederate Park, are a part of the National Park Service, administered by the Director of Shiloh National Battlefield Park.

There are 6 markers of unknown Confederate Soldiers.

There is a large double maarker with this inscription:

We care not whence they came
Dear in their lifeless clay
Whether known or unknown to fame
Their cause and country still the same
They died and wore the gray
Remember the unknown heroes
They are equal to the same thing
Are equal to each other."

Local historians believe that the six unknown graves at this cemetery belong to Confederate color bearers.
Date cemetery was established: Oct 1862

Visiting hours:
24/7


Website pertaining to the cemetery: [Web Link]

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