On Polk Street at East Linden Street, on the right when traveling north on Polk Street.
William Lane Duncan moved his dry goods operation to Corinth in 1858. Already a local leader, the South Carolina native had twice won elections as Tishomingo County sheriff.
To accommodate his growing family, Duncan built this house at the . . . — — Map (db m155261) HM
On Polk Street at East Linden Street, on the right when traveling north on Polk Street.
“I was in the battle of Shiloh from the opening gun to the close; and while I was very young, the impressions made on my mind are vivid and lasting.”
Here in his boyhood home Thomas Dudley Duncan penned the story of those . . . — — Map (db m155251) HM
On Polk Street at East Linden Street, on the right when traveling north on Polk Street.
The famous long distance railroads intersecting in Corinth in 1862 formed two links in a shaky network of rails crisscrossing Mississippi and her neighboring states. This network proved critical when General Albert Sidney Johnston began . . . — — Map (db m155252) HM
On Polk Street at East Linden Street, on the right when traveling north on Polk Street.
For six months in 1862, the fight to control Corinth’s crucial railroad crossover made the young town second only to Richmond in military importance.
Noting her location at the junction of the two longest railroads in the South, General Ulysses . . . — — Map (db m155253) HM
On Polk Street at East Linden Street, on the right when traveling north on Polk Street.
“A fearful hand-to-hand fight was raging in the heart of the town – around the railroad depot, the Tishomingo Hotel, the Corinth House, and even in the yard around the headquarters of General Rosecrans, the old Duncan . . . — — Map (db m155254) HM
On Polk Street at East Linden Street, on the right when traveling north on Polk Street.
This now deactivated artillery round was recovered from the western side of the October 1862 Corinth battlefield. Called spherical case, this hollow projectile contained a small bursting charge of gunpowder, surrounded by 450 balls, each of .69 . . . — — Map (db m155257) HM
On Polk Street at East Linden Street, on the right when traveling north on Polk Street.
On May 10, 1863, troops of the Corinth garrison stacked their arms and gathered near the Verandah House for a speech by U.S. Army Adjutant General Lorenzo Thomas. At its former location just around the corner, Duncan House would have been an ideal . . . — — Map (db m155259) HM
On Polk Street at East Linden Street, on the right when traveling north on Polk Street.
Confederate and Union armies occupied Corinth throughout the war and whether planning battles or attending to the details of garrison life, staff officers were a frequent presence in this home. Col. Thomas Jordan, Beauregard’s chief-of-staff and the . . . — — Map (db m155260) HM
