At Corinth Redux, Van Dorn’s assaults on the batteries fail.

After occupying Corinth, the Union Army set about expanding fortifications, adding a series of batteries, which would prove vital when Van Dorn’s army charged the city. The Confederates broke through at points, engaging in hand-to-hand combat, but when they met with the hellish fire from Battery Robinette, their advance collapsed.

Although the Confederates were repulsed in this second battle, and Van Dorn stripped of his command, this stubborn soldier would make a comeback as a cavalry leader whose successful strike against Grant’s base in Holly Springs would lead, ironically, to a shift in Union tactics that would contribute to the Confederacy’s undoing.

But before that shift came the quest.