Corinth, Mississippi (Location Key)

Corinth is a town in extreme northeastern Mississippi, twenty miles south of the Shiloh battlefield and about sixty miles from Sartoris. Historically, after their loss at Shiloh, Confederate soldiers retreated to Corinth, but the city fell to Union forces at the end of May 1862 - which is what Loosh is referring to in "Ambuscade" when he tells Bayard Sartoris, after destroying the make-believe Vicksburg where Bayard and Ringo have been playing war, "I tell you nother you aint know. . . . Corinth" (3, 5). Bayard knows "that's not far" from Yoknapatawpha (3); as he says in The Unvanquished version of the story, "I've been there" (5).