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10/03/2003: "Corinth"

On this day, October 3, in 1862, an American Civil War battle,"The Battle of Corinth," was fought, ending in a decisive victory of Union over Confederate forces in northeastern Mississippi. Click more.. below.

Believing that the capture of the strategically important town of Corinth would break the Union hold on the Corinth-Memphis railroad and drive Union General Ulysses S. Grant from western Tennessee, the Confederate generals Earl Van Dorn and Sterling Price attacked with 22,000 men. After indecisive fighting on October 3, a furious hour-long battle was fought near Corinth on October 4, during which Union forces under General William S. Rosecrans repulsed the Confederates and sent them into full retreat. During this brief but bloody clash, Union casualties totaled 2,520; the Confederates lost 4,233. From Encyclopedia Britannica.

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