rt, afterwards Ord, at Bolivar, with about eight thousand; Grant (headquarters at Jack son), with about three thousand; Rosecrans at Corinth, with about fifteen thousand, together with the following outposts, viz.: Rienzi, twenty-five hundred; Burnsville, Jacinto, and Iuka, about six thousand; at important bridges, and on garrison duty, about two or three thousand, making in the aggregate about forty-two thousand (42,000) men in West Tennessee.
Memphis, Jackson, Bolivar, and Corinth were fortihich opened upon our troops a most destructive fire at short range.
The heavy guns of College Hill — the enemy's most important work — were for a moment silenced, and all seemed about to be ended, when a heavy fire from fresh troops from Iuka, Burnsville, and Rienzi, that had succeeded in reaching Corinth in time, poured into our thinned ranks.
Our troops gave way. They were pushed down College Hill, and followed by the enemy through the woods and over the ground they had gained by such desp
ng Corinth.
gallant and impetuous charge of Price's troops.
the second day's fight.
mismanagement of the attack on the enemy's works.
terrible slaughter at College Hill.
the Confederates repulsed.
affair on the Hatchie River.
Van Dorn's retreat.
review of the summer and autumn campaigns of 1862.
glory of the Confederate a by heavy reserves, behind which the retreating enemy took shelter, and which opened upon our troops a most destructive fire at short range.
The heavy guns of College Hill — the enemy's most important work — were for a moment silenced, and all seemed about to be ended, when a heavy fire from fresh troops from Iuka, Burnsville, and Rienzi, that had succeeded in reaching Corinth in time, poured into our thinned ranks.
Our troops gave way. They were pushed down College Hill, and followed by the enemy through the woods and over the ground they had gained by such desperate courage.
At the very time the day was lost, Lovell's division was advancing, and was
