Battle of Corinth-1862

What the two days cost depends on who is counting. Rosecrans's army reported 2,520 casualties, while Van Dorn's returns show 4,233; historians differ, with Woodworth putting Confederate losses near 4,000 and Kennedy at 4,800 against 2,350 Union. Van Dorn blamed Hebert for failing to open the second day's attack on time. Pemberton replaced him right after the battle, and a court of inquiry unanimously cleared him of drunkenness and of neglecting his wounded. Rosecrans began his pursuit the next morning, though Grant had wanted it at once, and Van Dorn slipped away after Hatchie's Bridge.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center — 0.3 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 — 1.4 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 — 18 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

• Bobby Gene Emmons — 0.3 mi
• Corinth — 0.4 mi
• Grant's Headquarters — 0.4 mi
• Generals' Headquarters — 0.4 mi