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From April 29 to May 30, 1862, some 300,000 men — including my great-great grandfather, Pvt. Edward Willis — converged at the tiny railroad depot of Corinth, in northern Mississippi, where they laid siege to the Confederate forces under Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard.
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General Halleck would have been happy to have had that many men on hand. He may have had about a third that many. For that matter, if you added up the forces on both sides at Corinth [giving the writer the benefit of the doubt for what might have been a bad edit], the numbers didn't come close to that figure, either.