Hi Lynn,
I am a Park Ranger at the Corinth Civil War Interpretive Center (a unit of Shiloh National Military Park). I am afraid that if your great-great grandfather was killed during the fighting at Corinth there is no way to determine just where he was buried. The 2nd Texas Infantry was in John Creed Moore's brigade and was in the thickest of the fighting in all three days of fighting (3&4 October in Corinth, 5 October at Davis Bridge)and the casualties within the regiment (as well as in Moore's brigade and Maury's division) were very heavy. The Confederate dead from the battle were buried on the field but the resting places are not marked. The 2nd Texas was heavily engaged near the old Confederate earthworks two miles north of town, just north of Battery F two miles west of town and just behind our Visitor Center at the location of Battery Robinett. On the 5th of October the regiment was engaged in the heavy fighting on the west bank of the Hatchie River. It is possible that if 1st Sergeant Salberg was killed near the old earthworks or Battery F, he may have been buried by his comrades. These locations were in Confederate hads the evening of the 3rd and many soldiers were buried that night by their own men. If he was not buried by his comrades he would have been buried on the 5th or 6th by Union soldiers or contraband work parties. However, if he fell in front of Battery Robinett or at Davis Bridge he would have definetly been buried by the Northerners.

None of the Confederate grave sites in Corinth or at Davis Bridge are identified (with two exceptions). If the graves were marked they were lost to time and development. The city of Corinth continued to grow after the war and many parts of the battlefield which were farm or woodlands in 1862 are now covered with houses, busnisses and roads. The efforts to preserve this battlefield came too late to save many of the features. The United Daughters of the Confederacy purchased the site of Battery Robinett which includes the graves of two soldiers, one of who served wth the 2nd Texas Infantry. Colonel William P. Rogers who was commanding the regiment during the battle was laid to rest with honors where he fell. Brigadier General Lewis Hogg, also a Texan, died near Corinth in May of 1862 of disease. In 1917 his body was moved to this site by his family. There are also two unknown US soldiers buried nearby whose bodies were discovered by archeologists in 2001.

I am very confident that the final resting place of many of the Confederate dead was within 100 yards of our building. Battery Robinett witnessed the heaviest fighting of the short campaign and common sense dictates thet the dead would have been buried close to where they fell. Because of the disturbance of the ground by urban growth in the years following the battle, there is no chance of locating the mass graves using conventional archeology or ground penetrating radar. We tried.

The dead are not forgotten. The UDC and SCV lay a wreath each year in remembrance. This Saturday the UDC will have a special ceremony to remember Major Joseph Vaugn of the 6th Missouri Infantry who fell during the fighting on October 3rd.

Tom