Kossuth

Kossuth started as New Hope and took its present name in the early 1850s from Lajos Kossuth, the Hungarian revolutionary of 1848. Its best-known resident was Mark Perrin Lowrey, a Baptist preacher born in Tennessee in 1828, nicknamed the Preacher General. He took command of the 32nd Mississippi Infantry in April 1862 and became a Confederate brigadier general in October 1863. Patrick Cleburne, his division commander, called him the bravest man in the army. In 1873 he founded the Blue Mountain Female Institute, later Blue Mountain College.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center — 7.8 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 — 9.0 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 — 13 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 — 26 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

• First Rural Power Electric Cooperative — 6.4 mi
• Roscoe Turner — 7.6 mi
• Battle of Corinth-1862 — 7.8 mi
• Bobby Gene Emmons — 8.0 mi