CORINTH  , a

city and the county-seat of Alcorn county, Mississippi, U.S.A., situated in the N.E. part of the state, about 90 M . E. by S. of Memphis, Tennessee . Pop . (189o) 2I I1; (1900) 3661 (1174 negroes); (1910) 5020 . It is served by the Mobile & Ohio and the Southern railways; and by a branch of the Illinois Central connecting Jackson, Miss., and Birmingham, Ala . It has woollen mills, cotton compresses, clothing, furniture, and spoke and stave factories and machine shops, and is a cotton market . Because of its situation and its importance as a railway junction, Corinth played an important part in the western campaigns of the Civil War . After the first Con-federate line of defence had been broken by the capture of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson (February 1862), Corinth was fortified by General P . G . T . Beauregard, and was made the centre of the new line along the Memphis & Charleston railway, " the great East and West artery of the Confederacy." Grant's advance on this centre, then defended by General A . S .

Johnston, led to the battle of Shiloh, fought on April 6/7 about 20 m . N.E. of Corinth; after this engagement Beauregard withdrew to Corinth . General H . W . Halleck, with a greatly superior force, cautiously and slowly advanced upon the Confederate position, consuming more than a month in the operation . During the night of the 29th of May Beauregard evacuated the place (which was occupied by the Federals on the following day), and re-established his line at Tupelo . Corinth then became the headquarters of the Union forces under General W . S . Rosecrans, who on the 3/4 of October 1862 was fiercely attacked here by General Earl von Dorn, whom he repulsed, both sides suffering considerable losses in killed and wounded, and the Confederates leaving many prisoners behind .