4 October 1862, Saturday – Battle of Corinth, Mississippi, 2nd day

Union – Government
President Lincoln continues to visit camps, hospitals and battlefields with General McClellan, leaving in the afternoon for Washington.

Confederates – GovernmentAt the Kentucky state capitol of Frankfort, Richard Hawes is inaugurated Confederate governor in ceremonies attended by Bragg and other officers.

Confederates – Military
Mississippi
The Confederate troops under van Dorn renew their assault against the well-posted troops under Rosencrans. Both the assaults and Union counter attacks are costly, particularly at Battery Robinette, with little decided. Eventually the Confederates are repulsed. They withdraw early in the afternoon to Chewalla, ten miles northwest from Corinth.

More Union troops arrive after the battle has ended, but there is no pursuit until October 5.

Casualties
Union
355 killed, 1841 wounded, 324 missing
2520 out of about 23,000 effectives.

Confederacy
473 killed, 1997 wounded, 1763 missing
4233 out of probably 22,000 total troops.

The Southerners succeed in taking the pressure off Bragg in Kentucky by preventing reinforcements to Buell, but they fail to capture the important rail and road center of Corinth, or to wreck Rosecrans’ force and thereby make Grant pull back toward Ohio.

Kentucky
There are skirmishes near Bardstown, Clay Village, and on the Bardstown Pike.

Missouri
There are skirmishes at Newtonia, Granby, and in Monroe County.

Tennessee
There is a skirmish near Middleton.

Louisiana
There is a skirmish at Donaldsonville.

Virginia
There is a skirmish at Conrad’s Ferry.

There is a Union reconnaissance from Loudon Heights to Hillsborough from this day until the 6th.


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Bibliography
The Civil War Day By Day: An Almanac 1861-1865. E.B. Long with Barbara Long, De Capo, 1971