Corinth rail junction
Rail junction, Corinth, Mississippi.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Rail junction
- Where
- Corinth, Mississippi
- Years
- 1861-1862
CORINTH RAIL JUNCTION
Crossing of the Mobile and Ohio and the Memphis and Charleston railroads, which Confederate Secretary of War LeRoy Pope Walker called the vertebrae of the Confederacy. Union forces under Halleck besieged Corinth from April 29 to May 30, 1862, and took the town.
Then
Corinth stood at the crossing of the Mobile and Ohio and the Memphis and Charleston railroads, which Confederate Secretary of War LeRoy Pope Walker called the vertebrae of the Confederacy.
Union forces under Halleck besieged Corinth from April 29 to May 30, 1862, and took the town.
Now
Lines owned by Norfolk Southern and smaller railroads run through Corinth today.
Served by
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