Beauregard abandons the Corinth rail junction
May 30, 1862, Corinth, Mississippi.
- Date
- May 30, 1862
- Where
- Corinth, Mississippi
- What happened
- Captured
- Event
- 37 of 174
Corinth stood at the crossing of the Mobile and Ohio and the Memphis and Charleston, a junction called the vertebrae of the Confederacy. After a month-long siege, Beauregard withdrew on the night of May 29, using the Mobile and Ohio to carry out his sick and wounded. Grant then made Corinth the base for his operations toward Vicksburg.
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