Cornith
GULF OF here. Early on the morning of Oct. 4, the combined Confederate forces, under Van Dorn, Price, and Lovell attacked the Union lines at Corinth. The fight lasted until night closed the contest. The Union army was driven back into the town. The battle was renewed next morning, and raged fiercely till noon, when the Confederates were repulsed and retreated. The Confederates numbered in this fight 38,000 men; while General Rosecrans, who commanded the Union army, had not over 20,000. The Union loss was 315 killed, including General Hackleman, 1,812 wounded, and 232 missing; the Confederate loss was 1,423 killed; wounded estimated at 5,692; 2,248, including 137 officers, taken prisoners; and 3,300 stand of arms, 14 stand of colors, together with vast quantities of stores. Pop. (1920) 5,498.
CORINTH, GULF OF, a beautiful inlet of the Mediterranean, about 80 miles long, between the Peloponnesus and northern Greece, having the Isthmus of Corinth closing it in on the E.; also known as the Gulf of Lepanto. the Isthmus CORINTH, ISTHMUS OF, the isthmus which connects the Morea (Peloponnesus) with northern Greece, varying in width from 4 to 8 miles. A canal, about 4 miles long, was constructed across the isthmus in 1882-1893, which enables vessels to sail from the Archipelago to the Adriatic without rounding Cape Matapan.