As it was, many loyal people despaired in the fall of 1862 of ever saving the Union.

The administration at Washington was much concerned for the safety of the cause it held so dear.

But I believe there was never a day when the President did not think that, in some way or other, a cause so just as ours would come out triumphant.
Up to the 11th of September Rosecrans still had troops on the railroad east of Corinth, but they had all been ordered in.

By the 12th all were in except a small force under Colonel Murphy of the 8th Wisconsin.

He had been detained to guard the remainder of the stores which had not yet been brought in to Corinth.
On the 13th of September General Sterling Price entered Iuka, a town about twenty miles east of Corinth on the Memphis and Charleston railroad.