Grant's Headquarters

Grant spent the siege of Corinth as little more than an observer. In his memoirs he says orders went straight to the right wing or the reserve, bypassing him, and advances between the entrenched lines were made without notice to him. He found it embarrassing enough that he applied several times to be relieved of command. When he suggested moving the Army of the Mississippi at night to the rear of the center and right, so it could advance at daylight, he was quickly silenced. The investment of Corinth was complete on May 28.

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

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