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30.-General Beauregard's official report of the evacuation of Corinth, and retreat to Tupelo, Mississippi.
headquarters Western Department, Tupelo, Miss., June 13, 1862.
General: In relation to the recent military operations in this quarter, I have to submit the following for the information of the War Department:
The purposes and ends for which I had held and occupied Corinth having been mainly accomplished by the last of May, and by the twenty-fifth of that month having ascertained definitely that the enemy had received large accessions to his already superior force, whilst ours had been reduced day by day by disease, resulting from bad water and inferior food, I felt it clearly my duty to evacuate that position without delay.
I was further induced to this step by the fact that the enemy had declined my offer of battle, twice made him, outside of my intrenched lines, and sedulously avoided the separation of his corps, which he advanced with uncommon caution, unde