Hey everyone, welcome to the 220th episode.

We're going to pick up Brightwear Wee or Rich left off last time.

At the end of the last episode, it was about 11 o'clock on the morning of Friday, October

3rd, 1862, and after some brisk skirmishing at Northwest of the town of Corinth's Mississippi,

Earl Van Dorn's Confederates had pushed across Cain Creek and deployed for battle.

Van Dorn deployed his three divisions and pressed ahead toward the Union defenders,

who were positioned along the lines of the old Confederate entrenchments built under

PGT Borgards direction back in the spring when the rebels had controlled Corinth and Henry

Alex Federals were approaching the town.

Now some five months later, Van Dorn's Confederates were the ones approaching Corinth.

The rebel commander deployed Mansfield-Level's division on the right with sterling prices

to divisions commanded by Dabney Mori and Lewis A. Bear on the left.

Rosecranc had called in his outpost attachments and concentrated four divisions, 23,000

strong to defend Corinth.

On October 3rd, three of those divisions had taken up position Northwest and north of

the town, midway between Rosecran's inner line of routes, the College Hill line, and

the old Confederate works.

Thomas McKin's division was on the left, Thomas Davies in the center, and Charles Hamilton's

on the right.

The fourth division, David Stanley's, was held in reserve south of town.

On the Confederate right, Lovel's brigades had driven back Colonel John Oliver's advanced

guard of three regiments and a section of our Federal Artillery from McKin's division,

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