Capture of Booneville

Booneville was a railroad town before it was much of a town. The Mobile and Ohio was laid out through here in 1848, the community was settled in 1858 and incorporated in 1861, and the depot was what Union cavalry came for. In May 1862, during the siege of Corinth, Colonel Washington Lafayette Elliott's troopers destroyed it along with a munitions train, and Elliott was promoted to brigadier general on June 11 after leading a raid on the Mobile and Ohio. By 1866, 184 miles of the line had been destroyed.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site — 14 mi
  The crossroads where Nathan Bedford Forrest routed a larger Union force in June 1864, and where Black regiments, many raised at Corinth, held the bridge that let most of the army escape.
• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center — 20 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 — 20 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.
• Tishomingo State Park — 21 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.

More markers nearby

• Council of War — 0.3 mi
• Booneville Armory — 0.9 mi
• Booneville — 1.0 mi
• Battle of Booneville — 1.2 mi