Johnston's Headquarters

Albert Sidney Johnston died of a wound that could have been stopped. Around 2:30 p.m. on April 6, 1862, leading a charge near the Peach Orchard at Shiloh, he was hit behind the right knee; the bullet clipped the popliteal artery and his boot filled with blood. His surgeon was away treating other wounded, and a tourniquet was found in his pocket. Staff wrapped the body in a blanket so the troops would not see it. After the retreat it was brought to Corinth, then buried in New Orleans and moved to Austin in 1867.

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

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