Woodall Mountain, Mississippi |
 There wasn’t much of a view from the summit of Woodall Mountain except at this spot where the woods had been cleared to make way for power lines, and it was possible to look down onto the surrounding countryside. Joe Glickman and Nels Akerlund’s book, To The Top: Reaching for America’s 50 State Summits, calls Woodall Mountain “America’s bloodiest highpoint”, because on 19 September 1862 – in what has become known as the Battle of Iuka – “Union troops showered the Confederates with heavy artillery from Woodall Mountain and the surrounding high ground” and “a third of those who fought died.” |