✦ History

Part of American Civil War

Siege of Corinth

April 29 – May 30, 1862 · Siege of Corinth

Result Union victory

Halleck's slow advance on the Corinth rail junction; Beauregard evacuated the town without a battle.

On the map Contemporaries

Union

Confederacy

United States
Confederate States of America
Henry Halleck military commander
P. G. T. Beauregard military commander

Strength and losses

Strength
120,000
Casualties
1,000

Units

Army of the Ohio Army of the Tennessee 14th Ohio Infantry Regiment 2nd Missouri Infantry Regiment (Union) 5th Minnesota Infantry Regiment 9th Illinois Infantry Regiment
Army of Mississippi (1862) Army of the West (1862)

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