. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ississippi from Grand Gulf up toward Memphis, latein September, with Lovells division, a little over 8000 men, came up to Rip-ley, Mississippi, where, on the 28th of September, he was joined by GeneralPrice, with Heberts and Maurys divisions, numbering 13,863 effectiveinfantry, artillery, and cavalry. This concentration, following the precipitate withdrawal of Price fromIuka, portended mischief to the Union forces in west Tennessee, numberingsome forty to fifty thousand effectives
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . ississippi from Grand Gulf up toward Memphis, latein September, with Lovells division, a little over 8000 men, came up to Rip-ley, Mississippi, where, on the 28th of September, he was joined by GeneralPrice, with Heberts and Maurys divisions, numbering 13,863 effectiveinfantry, artillery, and cavalry. This concentration, following the precipitate withdrawal of Price fromIuka, portended mischief to the Union forces in west Tennessee, numberingsome forty to fifty thousand effectives, scattered over the district occupyingthe vicinity of the Memphis and Charleston railway from Iuka to Memphis, astretch of about a hundred and fifteen miles, and located at interior positions onthe Ohio and Mississippi from Paducah to Columbus, and at Jackson, Bethel,and other places on the Mississippi Central and Mobile and Ohio railways. The military features of west Tennessee and northern Mississippi will bereadily comprehended by the reader who will examine a map of that region THE BATTLE OF CORINTH. 739. PROVOST-MARSHALS OFFICE, CORINTH. FROM A WAR-TIME PHOTOGRAPH. and notice: (1) That the Memphis and Charleston railway runs not far fromthe dividing lines between the States, with a southerly bend from Memphiseastward toward Corinth, whence it extends eastwardly through Iuka, crossesBear River and follows the Tuscumbia Valley on the south side of that eastand west reach of the Tennessee to Decatur. Thence the road crosses to thenorth side of this river and unites with the Nashville and Chattanooga roadat Stevenson en route for Chattanooga. (2) That the Mobile and Ohio rail-way, from Columbus on the Mississippi, runs considerably east of south,passes through Jackson, Tennessee, Bethel, Corinth, Tupelo, and Baldwyn,Mississippi, and thence to Mobile, Alabama. (3) That the Mississippi Cen-tral, leaving the Mobile and Ohio at Jackson, Tennessee, runs nearly south,passing by Bol
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