Battle of Corinth

Battery Powell changed hands in a single morning, and the units involved are worth naming. On October 4, 1862, Confederates under Martin E. Green, from the Gates and McLain brigades, charged in and scattered the Illinois and Iowa troops holding the guns. Union General Davies rallied his men and retook them, while Hamilton beat off attacks on his own position and sent help. Cabell's Confederate brigade came up to reinforce the captured battery and was driven back, because the Union counterattack had already won it. Van Dorn's general retreat followed that recapture.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center — 0.8 mi
  A Park Service center at Battery Robinett telling why two railroads made Corinth a prize, from the siege of 1862 to the battle of October, and what happened to the people who sought freedom there.
• Corinth Contraband Camp — 1.0 mi
  The site of a Union-run town of freedom seekers in 1862 and 1863, with a quarter-mile walkway of life-size bronze figures and the origin of a Black regiment that fought at Brices Cross Roads.
• Big Hill Pond State Park — 14 mi
  A 4,000-acre bottomland park in McNairy County built around a pond that railroad crews dug in 1853, with a 70-foot tower over Dismal Swamp and Civil War earthworks.
• Shiloh Indian Mounds — 17 mi
  A National Historic Landmark on the Tennessee River bluff: the remains of a palisaded Mississippian-era town with seven mounds and the visible rings of its house sites, inside Shiloh National Military Park.

More markers nearby

• Corinth — 0.2 mi
• Ft. Robinette — 0.3 mi
• Johnston's Headquarters — 0.4 mi
• C.S.A. Rifle Pit — 0.4 mi