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Ramer's Crossing is to the North of Cornith, however I cannot find it on OR Atlas Plate 25-1.

There are a number of RR crossing North of the city, however they are unmarked.

Tracking the 17th Wisconsin & 1st Mississippi PR may be the route to it's location.

George Martin

17th Regiment Infantry

Organized at Madison, Wis., and mustered in March 15, 1862. Left State for St. Louis, Mo., March 23. At Benton Barracks until April 10. Moved to Pittsburg Landing, Tenn., April 10-14. Attached to 1st Brigade, 6th Division, Army of the Tennessee, to July, 1862. 1st Brigade, 6th Division, District of Corinth, Miss., to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 6th Division, Left Wing 13th Army Corps (Old), Dept. of the Tennessee, to December, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, 16th Army Corps, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 6th Division, 17th Army Corps, to September, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 17th Army Corps, to April, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, to November, 1864. 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 17th Army Corps, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.--Advance on and siege of Corinth, Miss., April 29-May 30, 1862. Duty at Corinth until November. Near Ramer's Crossing, Mobile & Ohio Railroad, October 2 (Co. "A"). Battle of Corinth October 3-4.
http://www.civilwararchive.com/Unreghst/unwiinf2.htm

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1st Regiment, Mississippi Partisan Rangers

October 2, part of the regiment raided the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, near Ramer's crossing, attempting to tear up the track, but was repulsed by the guard, Company A, Seventeenth Wisconsin Infantry
http://www.mississippiscv.org/MS_Units/1st_Regt_MS_Partisan_Rangers.htm

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While Van Dorn and Price were making their unsuccessful attack on Corinth on October 2nd, Falkner's regiment was detailed to cut the Mobile and Ohio Railroad north of the town to prevent Grant from sending reinforcements from Jackson, Tennessee. The only report concerning the Rangers' role in this operation is a Federal one to the effect that a body of Confederate cavalry, said by one of the natives to be Falkner's men commanded by Falkner himself, removed a rail at Ramer's Crossing north of Corinth before being driven off. It is clear, however, that the Rangers were among the cavalrymen who did so much damage to the railroad that McPherson's reinforcing division from Jackson had to leave the cars at Bethel, fifteen miles north of Corinth, and march the rest of the way to the battlefield on a very hot day. The late arrival of these reinforcements was probably a decisive factor in the failure of Rosecrans' pursuit of the defeated Van Dorn.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mscivilw/history/rangers.htm

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