THE VICTORY AT CORINTH: Desperate Assault Upon the Place by Fifty Thousand Rebels; The Battle Continued Through Two Days (10/9/1862)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 10/9/1862

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CORINTH, Miss., Sunday, Oct. 5.

The correspondent of the St. Louis Democrat has the following details of the battle at Corinth:

"On the morning of the 3d, our outposts were attacked by the enemy in force, about six miles northeast of Corinth, and before 9 o'clock the engagement became general end fierce, and a sanguinary battle was fought.

Our men under ROSECRANS stood up manfully, and fought with great coolness and bravery; but regiment after regiment, and brigade after brigade poured in upon us, and we were forced slowly backward, fighting desperately. The rebels pushed forward with determined obstinacy, and held every foot of their advantage ground.

They outflanked our inferior force and were forming in the rear, and we were obliged to fall back still further to prevent this movement from being accomplished. The enemy were now inside our breastworks pushing us backward toward the town when darkness put an end to fighting that day.

During the day's fight our loss was heavy, but that of the enemy must have largely exceeded ours.

Three pieces of the First Missouri Battery were captured after having stood for hours before the enemy's fire. Brig.-Gen. HACKLEMAN fell mortally wounded at the head of his men, and died the same evening. Gen. OGLESBY was shot in the breast.

About 4 o'clock A.M. of the 4th, the enemy opened on the town with shot and shell. Our batteries replied, and for an hour or more a heavy cannonading was kept up. At the expiration of that time, two rebel guns had been disabled, and, shortly after-daylight, their battery of seven guns was captured.

A portentous quiet soon occurred, and it was evident that some movement was being made by the enemy.

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The Victory at Corinth: Desperate Assault Upon the Place by Fifty Thousand Rebels – 2
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The Army of the Potomac: From Antietam – 3
Important from the Gulf: Preparations for an Attack on Galveston – 3
Important from Washington: The Danger of Foreign Intervention Passed – 3-4
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Push On the Columns – 5
Hindman Foremost in Stealing – 5
Temper of the Army – 5
Great Increase of the Army – 5
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