Egypt, also known as Pikeville, is an unincorporated community in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, United States.
Egypt is located on the former Gulf, Mobile and Ohio Railroad and was home to a depot.
[2] Egypt also had two churches, an academy, a broom factory, a grist mill, and a Munger System cotton gin.
[4] The Battle of Egypt Station was fought on December 28, 1864, when Brigadier General Benjamin Grierson's Union cavalry division defeated an outnumbered Confederate force led by Samuel J. Gholson and Franklin Gardner.
The Union raiders were intent on damaging the railroad before heading southwest to Vicksburg.