Occupied Corinth

[firstmdes]

Here is a report on the First Alabama Regiment of African Descent and the contraband camp located near Corinth. Interesting reading...

Occupied Corinth: The Contraband Camp and the First Alabama Regiment of African Descent, 1862-1865 (1995) (pdf)
http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/shil/occupied_corinth.pdf

[Bitter_Bierce]

Speaking of Corinth....

A friend of mine who is a professional historian told me about Cornith's ugly little secret. After the war Battery Robinette was leveled at the orders of a local chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy because it was considered too "horrid" a reminder of battle.

Preservation concepts have certainly changed over the years.

http://www.topogs.org/images/12Dead_in_front_of_Battery_Robinette.jpg