Architectural style Dutch colonial Area 8 ha Phone +1 662-286-5782 | NRHP Reference # 96001352 Year built 1866 Added to NRHP 20 November 1996 | |
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MPS Civil War Era National Cemeteries MPS Address 1551 Horton St, Corinth, MS 38834, USA Similar Corinth Interpretive Center, Crossroads Museum, Natchez National Cemetery, Mobile National Cemetery, Little Rock National Cemetery | ||
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Corinth National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery in the city of Corinth, in Alcorn County, Mississippi. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 20 acres (8.1 ha), and as of the end of 2005, had 7,137 interments. It is managed by the Little Rock National Cemetery.
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History
Corinth National Cemetery was established in 1866 as a place to inter the Union casualties of the Second Battle of Corinth, and other battles in the region. By the late 1870s there were over 5,000 interments in the cemetery, nearly 4,000 of which were of unknown dead.
Corinth National Cemetery was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.
Along with other sites, it was included in Siege and Battle of Corinth Sites, a National Historic Landmark designated in 1991