Battle of Iuka

Iuka is remembered for a battle one Union column never heard. On September 19, 1862, about 4,500 of Rosecrans's men fought 3,179 Confederates under Sterling Price, with Hamilton's division bearing most of it. Edward Ord's divisions, approaching from the northwest, never joined: a north wind carried the guns' sound away, and Grant and Ord knew nothing until it was over. Union losses were 790; Confederate losses were 1,516, including 263 killed. Price slipped away that night by the Fulton Road and met Van Dorn at Ripley five days later.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tishomingo State Park — 13 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps park around Bear Creek's sandstone canyon at milepost 304 of the Natchez Trace Parkway, with a swinging bridge and cliffs found nowhere else in Mississippi.
• Pickwick Landing State Park — 18 mi
  A state park beside TVA's Pickwick Landing Dam, a few miles north of the Mississippi and Alabama lines, with a lodge, marina, golf course, aviary and the lake the 1938 dam made.
• Corinth Contraband Camp — 19 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.
• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center — 21 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.

More markers nearby

• Brig. Gen. Henry Little — 0.5 mi
• Iuka Normal — 1.2 mi
• Old Tishomingo County Courthouse — 1.4 mi
• Iuka — 1.4 mi