The Verandah House is one of sixteen sites comprising the Siege and Battle of Corinth Sites National Historic Landmark District. These 16 areas are made up of surviving elements of three significant American Civil War engagements in and near Corinth, Mississippi. Included are landscape and battlefield features of the Siege of Corinth (April 29 to June 10, 1862), the Battle of Corinth (October 3-4, 1862), and the following action at Davis Bridge (Battle of the Hatchie) on October 5, 1862. The district includes features located in Alcorn County, Mississippi, and Hardeman County, Tennessee. The district was designated a National Historic Landmark on May 6, 1991. (Six of these sites are now preserved as part of Shiloh National Military Park.)

In the 1850s, the city of Corinth grew up around the railroad crossing point of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad (opened 1857) and the Mobile and Ohio Railroad (opened 1861). This railroad junction made Corinth a key economic junction point in the southern United States, and for six months in 1862, made Corinth as important in the war’s western theater as Richmond was in the east. Following the bloody Union victory at Shiloh in early April 1862, Confederate forces withdrew to Corinth, which they heavily fortified with earthworks and other defenses, in order to protect the critical railroad lines. The month-long Siege of Corinth followed, in which Union forces again compelled the Confederates to retreat. Confederate reinforcements from the west made an attempt to recapture Corinth in the Battle of Corinth, but were repulsed with significant casualties. During their retreat, the Confederates were attacked in the Battle of Hatchie’s Bridge, near Pocahontas, Tennessee, by Union forces headed to intercept the southern army.