Unknown Soldiers C.S.A.

The Confederate dead of the Battle of Iuka were buried together in a long trench that later became Shady Grove Cemetery. On September 19, 1862, Sterling Price's Army of the West lost 263 killed, 692 wounded and 561 captured or missing, a total of 1,516. Price had come to Iuka expecting Earl Van Dorn to join him, but Van Dorn never reached the field. After dark the army pulled out along the Fulton Road, leaving a heavy rearguard, and it joined Van Dorn at Ripley five days later.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tishomingo State Park — 13 mi
  A Civilian Conservation Corps park around Bear Creek's sandstone canyon at milepost 304 of the Natchez Trace Parkway, with a swinging bridge and cliffs found nowhere else in Mississippi.
• Pickwick Landing State Park — 18 mi
  A state park beside TVA's Pickwick Landing Dam, a few miles north of the Mississippi and Alabama lines, with a lodge, marina, golf course, aviary and the lake the 1938 dam made.
• Corinth Contraband Camp — 21 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.
• Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center — 22 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.

More markers nearby

• Eastport — 0.7 mi
• Iuka — 0.8 mi
• Old Tishomingo County Courthouse — 0.9 mi
• Iuka Normal — 1.1 mi