Big Book of Civil War Sites by James Bradford

Author:James Bradford
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780762766321
Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
Published: 2016-07-30T04:00:00+00:00

Cavalrymen were ordered to hastily destroy all the Union equipment and supplies that the retreating infantry weren’t able to carry off with them. As the piles of broken tents and wagons blazed into the stormy afternoon, Breckinridge broke off contact and withdrew in good order at the rear of the long Confederate column. As the Confederate line moved south about 5 p.m., Grant’s exhausted infantry was simply too tired to follow. Breckinridge stopped for the night and redeployed at the intersection of Bark and Corinth Roads. No Union force challenged their rest, and at dawn he moved south into Corinth.

Grant had won a magnificent victory, but at a heavy price. Of his 65,000-man combined army (with Buell’s), 1,754 were killed, 8,408 wounded, and 2,885 captured or missing in action—a fifth of his whole command. The tattered remnants of his proud regiments were too shot up and exhausted after two solid days of combat to pursue the retreating Confederates, who made it back into Mississippi without resistance.

Beauregard suffered worse; in addition to losing the beloved army commander Albert Sidney Johnston, he had to report losses of 1,728 killed, 8,012 wounded, and 959 missing or captured. This loss of 10,699 soldiers constituted nearly a fourth of all the men he had helped bring into the campaign. Once back in Corinth, he ordered the town prepared for defense against an attack by Grant and set about turning nearly the entire small community into one vast hospital for his thousands of wounded.

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