Farmington Baptist Church

Farmington lay a few miles out from Corinth and saw fighting before the siege closed in. On May 3, 1862, John Pope's Union troops took the village, but Halleck ordered him to pull back and line up with Buell. On May 9, Beauregard ordered Van Dorn to hit Pope's advanced wing, and Pope withdrew successfully. The Union reported 16 killed, 148 wounded and 14 missing or captured. Ruggles's Confederate division, which carried most of the fighting, reported 8 dead, 89 wounded and 2 missing or captured.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Corinth Contraband Camp — 2.6 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 — 4.2 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.
• Pickwick Landing State Park — 15 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.
• Shiloh Indian Mounds — 16 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

• C.S.A. Rifle Pit — 3.1 mi
• Battle of Corinth — 3.5 mi
• Corinth — 3.6 mi
• Ft. Robinette — 3.6 mi