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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 19. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.62 (search)
ter tenacity of American troops is found in the fact that both sides held their ground in our battles two, three and more days. No European battle lasted more than one day except the one of Marlborough's, which was won on the second day. In the battle of Corinth, the First Division, Army of the West, went into action October 2d at ten A. M., with four thousand seven hundred rifles, fought all day; next day at ten A. M, stormed the town and worked with the Missouri division under General Martin Green. Being unsupported by the Third division, they were driven out with terrible loss. Next day the army retreated. The First division being in front was unexpectedly headed at the Hatchie bridge by General Ord with eight thousand men. The remnant, then about one thousand two hundred Texans and Arkansians, held that crossing from ten A. M. to three P. M., defeated every effort of Ord to cross and inflicted great loss. The enemy ceased to try the crossing, and the First division was or