Following the Battle of Corinth, Federal troops established Camp Glendale to serve as a fortified outpost for the garrison at Corinth that protected the northeastern flank of Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant when he advanced toward Vicksburg in November 1862. The camp was located 7 miles southeast of Corinth and consists of the remains of a stockade bastion, 200 feet by 100 feet, with a ditch and walls nearly five feet in height. The bastion was located 1/4-mile north of the Memphis & Charleston Railroad. Loyal Unionists from north Alabama, organized into the 1st Alabama (U.S.) Cavalry, were stationed at the camp from late October 1862 through June 1863. In addition, other regiments of the district garrison force served at the Glendale post. When it was determined that the Corinth garrison no longer had strategic military importance, the Union army abandoned the area on January 24, 1864, burning its posts and camps and retiring to the Federal enclave at Memphis.

This site has local significance becuase it is associated with military activiteis and events that achieved or affected important local objectives of the Vicksburg campaign.