Ft. Robinette

One man's death here is better documented than the assault. Colonel William P. Rogers of the 2nd Texas, born in Georgia and raised near Aberdeen, had captained a company of Mississippi Rifles at Monterrey and Buena Vista under Jefferson Davis. He later lived in Houston, where Sam Houston was a friend and client, and he signed the Texas secession ordinance. On October 4, 1862, he led the charge on foot, carrying the colors, and was shot down; the regiment lost more than half its men. Rosecrans ordered him buried with full military honors.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center — 0.6 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 — 1.0 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

• Corinth — steps away
• Johnston's Headquarters — steps away
• Generals' Headquarters — steps away
• Grant's Headquarters — steps away