Sherman's division carried these two positions with some loss to himself, but with probably greater to the enemy, on the 28th of May, and on that day the investment of Corinth was complete, or as complete as it was ever made.

Thomas' right now rested west of the Mobile and Ohio railroad.

Pope's left commanded the Memphis and Charleston railroad east of Corinth.
Some days before I had suggested to the commanding general that I thought if he would move the Army of the Mississippi at night, by the rear of the centre and right, ready to advance at daylight, Pope would find no natural obstacle in his front and, I believed, no serious artificial one.

The ground, or works, occupied by our left could be held by a thin picket line, owing to the stream and swamp in front.

To the right the troops would have a dry ridge to march over.