Corinth had already been evacuated and the National troops marched on and took possession without opposition.

Everything had been destroyed or carried away.

The Confederate commander had instructed his soldiers to cheer on the arrival of every train to create the impression among the Yankees that reinforcements were arriving.

There was not a sick or wounded man left by the Confederates, nor stores of any kind.

Some ammunition had been blown up--not removed--but the trophies of war were a few Quaker guns, logs of about the diameter of ordinary cannon, mounted on wheels of wagons and pointed in the most threatening manner towards us.
The possession of Corinth by the National troops was of strategic importance, but the victory was barren in every other particular.