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Tishomingo Hotel

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Location
  
Corinth, Mississippi

Completed
  
1859

Structural engineer
  
Martin Siegrist

Demolished
  
19 January 1865

Country
  
USA

Architect
  
Martin Siegrist

Opened
  
1859

Structural system
  
Brick

Tishomingo Hotel

Tishomingo Hotel in Corinth, Mississippi was a hotel built in 1859, used as a military hospital during the American Civil War. It was burned down by Confederate forces in 1865.

The two-story hotel was built in 1859 by Swiss architect Martin Siegrist. The hotel had a prime location, close to the railroad depot. In the backyard stood the hotel kitchen in a separate building, as well as a number of outbuildings. During the war it became a military hospital of both contending armies. First as a Confederate hospital after the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, and then as a Union hospital after Battle of Corinth in October the same year. It was later used as a shelter for escaped slaves. In 1865 Corinth briefly fell into Confederate hands again, and the hotel was used as a supply magazine. When leaving town, the Confederate army under John B. Hood burned the hotel, in order to prevent the Union army from taking control over the supplies.

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Tishomingo Hotel Wikipedia