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Corinth National Cemetery

United States veterans cemetery

Summary

United States veterans cemetery

Field	Value
name	Corinth National Cemetery
image	Corinth National Cemetery.jpg
caption	Graves seen in the early 20th century
location	1551 Horton St., Corinth, Mississippi
coordinates
locmapin	Mississippi#USA
built	1866
architecture	Dutch colonial
added	November 20, 1996
area	20 acre
mpsub
refnum	96001352

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 acre, and as of the end of 2005, had 7,137 interments. It is managed by the Little Rock National Cemetery.

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

References

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