Corinth National Cemetery

The National Cemeteries in the U.S.A. are used for graves of war dead, graves of U.S. military personnel, veterans and their spouses but not exclusively so. There are also special state veteran cemeteries.

Corinth National Cemetery was opened in 1866 as a place to inter the Union casualties of the Second Battle of Corinth and other battles in the region. Ten years later, there were over 5,000 graves in the cemetery, nearly 4,000 of which were of unknown dead. In 2005, there were in total 7,137 graves on this cemetery.


Corinth National Cemetery contains the grave of the following person, who fought for the United States of America and who gave his life in the war in Afghanistan and/or Operation Enduring Freedom:

27 February 2010 , Private 1st Class William Seth Ricketts, aged 27


The burial place Corinth National Cemetery contains the grave of the following person, who fought for the United States of America and who gave his life in the war in Iraq and/or Operation Iraqi Freedom:

29 April 2004 , Staff Sergeant Jeffrey Francis Dayton, aged 27

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Mississippi Department of Archives and History