Generals' Headquarters

The Curlee House, also called the Veranda House, was built in 1857 for Hamilton Mask, a surveyor who later served as Corinth's mayor in 1866 and 1872. After the war Judge William E. Curlee bought it in 1875. His widow, Mary Boone Curlee, sold it outside the family in 1882, and a descendant, Shelby Hammond Curlee, owned it by 1921. The Greek Revival house passed to the Corinth Library Commission in the early 1960s and has stood on the National Register of Historic Places since August 22, 1975.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center — 0.5 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 — 1.1 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

• Grant's Headquarters — steps away
• Johnston's Headquarters — steps away
• Ft. Robinette — steps away
• Corinth — steps away