Henry Halleck hated Corinth, Mississippi so much that he named a poop after it!

[**The following takes place during the American Civil War.**] >*May 1862, Corinth, Mississippi* >As far as the foot soldiers were concerned, the other side could have the damned town. The generals might have gladly given it up too, if not for the railroad junction. Corinth was pestilential. Event he Union’s pitiless [William Tecumseh Sherman](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/William-Tecumseh-Sherman.jpg) said the place made him feel “quite unwell.” Sherman’s superior, [Henry Halleck](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/97/Henry_Halleck_by_Scholten%2C_c1865.jpg), had such a low opinion of it that when he fell ill with a bowel ailment, he sourly named it “the evacuation of Corinth.” __________________________ **Source:** Jenkins, Sally, and John Stauffer. “Corinth.” *The State of Jones: The Small Southern County That Seceded from the Confederacy*. Anchor Books, 2010. 9. Print. __________________________ **Further Reading:** [William Tecumseh Sherman](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tecumseh_Sherman) [Henry Wager Halleck][(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Halleck)