There was no time from the battle of Shiloh up to the evacuation of Corinth when the enemy would not have left if pushed.

The demoralization among the Confederates from their defeats at Henry and Donelson; their long marches from Bowling Green, Columbus, and Nashville, and their failure at Shiloh; in fact from having been driven out of Kentucky and Tennessee, was so great that a stand for the time would have been impossible.

Beauregard made strenuous efforts to reinforce himself and partially succeeded.

He appealed to the people of the South-west for new regiments, and received a few.

A.S.Johnston had made efforts to reinforce in the same quarter, before the battle of Shiloh, but in a different way.