...e diminished by the detachment of Breckenridge with 6,000 men, and by the unexpected delays in fitting out the Donelson prisoners for the field; so that when on the 30th of September we marched from Ripley against Corinth, our combined forces were but little over half of what Van Dorn had justly calculated upon when he first proposed the enterprise. The disastrous results which ensued brought censure...