IUKA, the county seat of Tishomingo county, Mississippi, U.S.A., c. 25 m. S.E. of Corinth, N.E. corner of the State and 8 m. S. of the Tennessee river. Pop. (1920) 1,306; (1930) 1,441. In the American Civil War, a Confederate force under Gen. Sterling Price occupied the town on Sept. 14, 1862, driving out a small Union garrison; and on Sept. 19, a partial engagement took
place between Price and a Federal column in which the Confed erate losses were 700 and the Union 79o. Price, whose line of retreat was threatened by superior forces under Gen. Grant, with drew from Iuka on the morning of Sept. 20.