Brig. Gen. Henry Little

Lewis Henry Little was born in Baltimore on March 19, 1817, graduated from West Point and was commissioned in 1839 into the 5th U.S. Infantry. He won a brevet as captain at Monterrey in the Mexican War, then resigned his U.S. commission on May 7, 1861, and served as adjutant general to Sterling Price in the Missouri State Guard. He commanded the Confederate 1st Missouri Brigade at Pea Ridge and later Price's 1st Division. He was killed at Iuka about 5:45 p.m. on September 19, 1862, beside Price. He is buried in Green Mount Cemetery, Baltimore.

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 — 17 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

• Battle of Iuka — 0.5 mi
• Iuka Normal — 0.8 mi
• Old Tishomingo County Courthouse — 1.0 mi
• Iuka — 1.1 mi