Show SOME RETREATS Evacuation of Corinth I in 1862 In the light of the more recent reve lotions lations that have ra hed us from Man ManchurIa Manchuria churIa without offIcial editing says the Washington Post our military experts now believe that Kuropatkin fought the thelast thelast last days battle of Llao Liao Yang against odds of ten to one anti and that Ills his with withdrawal was wac It a m masterpiece or of strategy It now evident that the thc bulk of his army Was well weB upon Ute the way to Mukden before he shoWEd u a sign of yielding anti and that the Japanese c were held for at least hours b by bythe the Russian rear guar In support of this hypothesis he i the point to the fad fact that l ft behind him rio of var that every Important bit bitor bitof or of a army property had been b that t flip e Japanese after fter their heroIc efforts parched Into a dismantled str been n swept lea of all material of o Old are of Bt evacuation or of C Corinth Miss lii hi the ring t bi It was some time aft r the bloody battle of to be sure but as much a part art artof of It as retrograde move moot upon is a part of the tre tremendous affair or of LIRO Lino Yang Beaure Beauregard gard was strongly at Co Corinth and Halleck and Grant were slowly enveloping him tn Lu a grim cordon cordonI he could not hope to a force he did not nol dare to meet The Union commanders were drawing near nearer nearer er and nearer every day by means of zigzag trenches and the big gUns from the boats were shelling the confederate positions with steadily increasing fur But Beauregard had been quietly ship shipping ping the sick the wo wounded the wagons the animals and nearly aU all the mei Inen fit for them south to a position some eighty miles distant until on the lat last evening when ihen the Union troops were ready for forth the assault the confederate camp fir fires s I only a strong rear guard in light order It was about 10 that nl night ht V when with the big shells bursting all them a few tho thousand us and flied filed from man many dl di Into the hard smooth sandy sand road and sIx or seven hours later tile federals swarmed over the breast breastworks breastworks works only to find a bc beggarly debris of battered canteens and horse blankets and the like with Beaure gards arm army out of danger and aud the rear rearguard rearguard guard trotting southward tWenty miles away I retirement was achieved under Infinite greater difficulties but it seems to have been equally suc successful rom a military point of view HI History tol I we think will classify classi y it as one or of the famo famous s retreats in n wa war |