IUKA  , the

county-seat of Tishomingo county, Mississippi, U.S.A., about 25 M . S.E. of Corinth in the N.E. corner of the state and 8 m . S. of the Tennessee river . Pop . (1900) 882; (1910) 1221 . It is served by the Southern railway, and has a considerable trade in cotton and farm products . Its mineral springs make it a health resort . In the American Civil War, a Confederate force under General Sterling Price occupied the town on the 14th of September 1862, driving out a small Union garrison; and on the 19th of September a partial engagement took place between Price and a Federal column commanded by General Rosecrans, in which the Confederate losses were 700 and the Union 790 . Price, whose line of retreat was threatened by superior forces under General Grant, withdrew from Iuka on the morning of the loth of September .