We are staying in Tupelo -Elvis's birthplace, but the reason it its proximentry to Corinth Civil War Battkefield and to Memphis. The confederates move south after the win APRIL 6 AND THE DEFEAT APRIL 7 AT SHILOH. IN CORINTH THE MISSION WAS TO PROTECT THE RAILROADS. If you could control the transportation of good by land or sea, you could control the war. Black slaves, called the contraband of war, learned to read and had a model camp here run by a minister with every house having a garden
The numbers in battle were 40,000 or at Shiloh 100,000 with 23,000 dead. The logistics are hard to fathom - feeding, caring for the injured, burying the dead.
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