Meridian arsenal and depots
Depot, Meridian, Mississippi.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Depot
- Where
- Meridian, Mississippi
- Years
- 1861-1864
MERIDIAN ARSENAL AND DEPOTS
Confederates built an arsenal, storehouses, a military hospital and a prison stockade at the Meridian rail junction. Sherman took Meridian in February 1864 and destroyed the railroads in every direction, the arsenal and the storehouses.
Then
Confederates built military installations at the Meridian rail junction, including an arsenal, storehouses, a military hospital and a prison stockade.
Sherman took Meridian in February 1864 and destroyed the railroads in every direction, the arsenal and the storehouses.
Now
Lines owned by Norfolk Southern, CPKC and smaller railroads run through Meridian today.
Served by
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