Corinth, Mississippi is all about railroads. Transportation – just like with its illustrious namesake in Greece – constitutes Corinth’s raison d’être. Two main rail lines intersected here.  One set of rails went east and west – Memphis & Charleston, while the other line oriented itself in a north and south direction – Mobile & Ohio. The two lines made up very important transportation routes linking major parts of the Confederate South together. These railroads, because of the paucity of such roads available to the Confederacy, took on an even greater importance during the American Civil War.