The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-30

CNote.-When the battle of Corinth Mis- sissippi was inevitable. provost was sent to every home and the inmates of each home were ordered to leave in a cer- tain length of time only one trunk was allowed to each family. My father was absent with his regiment in Virginia, so my mother with three children-myself the yonngest-refuged in middle Missis- sippi until all danger was over. When we returned the house was left-that was all, and that was bullet-riddled. Spent shells were In some of the rooms. Over an im- mense hole in the wall, aAfacetious de- the she'll To begin life over was all that could be done. Thus 1t was that all my earlier life was spent on the battlefield of Corinth. When the war cry was hushed and nature began to cover the forts, ditches and old magazines with tender grass-which is natures forgiveness, Tor every torn and scared battlefield, every riven landscape, she covers with green grass as a token of forgiveness-and to make humanity forget and peace walked through the great graveyard of the south, we as children, played In the old forts, and all our plays were of mimic battle Thousands of mullen stalks were ruth lessly slaughtered. In the hollows of the old fort we found where the timid hare would hide its young. we listened to the mocking bird as he sung to his mate in the old haw tree. We gathered the white elder blooms and we hung entranced over &A1 srg. in xua beauty on the stagnant water of the ditches With all these environments is it strange the spirit that dominated my life should have been the spirit of re- bellion against the old stars and stripes? It was not until 1 reached the years of discretion that I could be fair in my Judgment, or see but one side of this is- sue. And in writing the scenes of this great battle I will try and not be biased, but 1t is the story l have heard since childhood.-Mary Inge Hoskins)
 On September 2S, juncture was formed between Gen. Stirling Price and Gen. Earl Van Dorn to capture the village of Corinth, Miss, then a stronghold of the enemy On Friday morning, October 5, the Confederate army numbering l3,S62 effective infantry, calvary and artillery, started at o'clock, from Chewalla. Tenn, 10 miles west of Corinth, under the com
  cer.
 The Army of the Mississippi was conn manded by General Lowell and marched on the left side of what is now known as the Southern railroad, but at that time was the Memphis and Charleston. The Army of the West was commanded by Gen Stirling Price and marched on the right side of the same railroad.
 At s o'clock Maury's and Hebert's (pro- VTaI n northwest of corinth. Phfer's brigade was on the left of Moore's, while Cabell s brigade of Maury's division was in re- serve in the rear of Moores on the first day and in the rear of Heberts the sec- ond day.
 At 10 o clock on the morning of October 3 the order was given to advance with great caution. They moved forward, pre- ceded by line of skirmishers deployed in front The Second Texas exchanged shots with ethe enemy, but the Forty second Alabama, mistaking the skirmish- CTS for the enemy, fired upon them, Kill ing Lieut. M B. Haynie and six privates. As the main body came up the skirm- ishers withdrew and the fight became general. The federals fell back at the first charge beyond the old Confederate breast works and made a strong stand. the dis tance between the two armies being only about 400 yards over an open space. or what was called in military tactics an abatis.
 The attack began on the extreme right of the federal army and extended rapidly down the line. A stubborn resistance was made. but with a strategic movement the Confederates drove the federals from their position, but a short distance back they were reinforced and returned the at tack with a gallant charge against the Second Texas, but the Johnny Rebs' met the attack with bravery. cutting the enemy's line in two and capturing BOO prisoners About this time the Union forces opened fire from an elevated posi- tion on the south side of the Memphis and Charleston railroad, and Col w. P.