Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center
National Park Service · Corinth, Mississippi
A National Park Service site in the north-east corner of Mississippi, administered by Shiloh National Military Park, covering the town both armies spent 1862 fighting over. Corinth was the crossing of the Memphis and Charleston and the Mobile and Ohio railroads — the Crossroads of the Confederacy, and after Shiloh the most valuable rail junction in the western theatre. The Interpretive Center is free and unusually good, and a mile away is the Contraband Camp, where several thousand people who had freed themselves built a self-governing town with its own church, school, hospital and farms, and from which one of the first regiments of Black troops in the Union army was raised.
501 West Linden Street, Corinth, Mississippi, 38834, United States
FREE. The Interpretive Center is generally open daily, roughly 8 AM to 5 PM, but this is a small National Park Service operation whose days and hours have varied — verify before travelling. Closed on major federal holidays. The Contraband Camp trail and Battery Robinett are outdoor sites, open in daylight whether or not the centre is staffed.
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