Corinth

Mississippi, United States
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Also known as: Cross City

Corinth, city, seat (1870) of Alcorn county, northeastern Mississippi, U.S. It is situated 85 miles (137 km) east of Memphis, Tennessee, near the Tennessee border. Founded in about 1855 as the junction of the Memphis and Charleston and the Mobile and Ohio railroads, it was called Cross City until 1857, when it was renamed Corinth, for the ancient Hellenic city. During the American Civil War, the bloody Battle of Shiloh (April 6–7, 1862) took place 20 miles (32 km) north of the city. As a strategic railroad centre, Corinth itself was the scene of a battle (October 3–4, 1862) in ...(100 of 173 words)