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Thank you both for your replys. The CSA did indeed lose the battle of Corinth and vacated the field shortly thereafter. If memory serves there were approx. 1,400 KIA's on the Confederate side. I don't have alot on this ancestor only his muster sheet. The cemetery surveys in Arkansas are, in my opinion, quite good but a search of those records (thinking that relatives came to retrieve the body) have not turned him up. So I'm sure that he rests in one of the burial trench cemeteries mentioned in the links or an unmarked grave on the battlefield. Retreats were, of course, often hasty and chaotic, dead hastily buried and forgotten. I thought someone might have some clues. I need to revisit the Cozzens book which is, I assume , one of the only book length studies of Corinth-Iuka and I have never been to the battlefield and I assume most of it has been overtaken by the town. This battle has always fascinated me. The charges of the Confederates bloody,short and forelorn. Similar to Franklin two years later, yet the battle of Corinth seems almost forgotten.
Thanks again.

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