Status - John Baer - 40th Indiana Regiment - Wood's Division
By the 28th, the Union armies had come up close to the Confederate lines, and fired on them with cannon for the entire day, while also probing forward. Most of the Confederate forces had withdrawn south by this time; the remainder waited until night, and then abandoned their entrenchments.
The next day the Union armies, with the left (Pope) in the lead, moved forward and found no resistance all the way to Corinth as their opposing army was gone south. Although the town was taken, and the important railroad junction was captured, a chance was lost to inflict more damage on a wounded and outnumbered Confederate army.
Virginia - Peninsula Campaign
McClellan continues to maneuver in front of Richmond to consolidate his forces.
More Information:
- Link: War Operations, see Volume X, Chapter XXII, Part II, Correspondence, pp. 213-225.
- The Civil War Day by Day, John S. Bowman, Ed. p. 71.
- Shelby Foote: The Civil War, A Narrative, Vol 1, Fort Sumter to Perryville, pp. 385-386.
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