Corinth's Military Importance

The most important reason for Corinth’s military significance were because 2 of the main railroads, the Charleston and Memphis railroad running east and west, while the Ohio and Mobile railroad ran north and south, but crossed downtown. Each of these two railroads were the most important in the confederacy perhaps because they reached almost about the whole height and breadth of the south. Important crossroads in the town of Corinth, were located in the northeast MS and contained more than a thousand inhabitants when they war started.
The railroads in Corinth soon became real occupied as MS along with the confederate government shipped arms, food, troops, and guns all around the confederacy.
Confederates lost the battle of Shiloh and