Halleck has accomplished little following Corinth, while…

Halleck has accomplished little following Corinth, while Confederate General Braxton Bragg had succeeded Beauregard (on June 27, for health reasons) in command of his fifty-six thousand troops of the Army of Tennessee, in Tupelo, Mississippi, due south of Corinth, but had determined that an advance directly north from Tupelo was not practical.

Leaving Major Generals Sterling Price and Earl Van Dorn to distract Grant, he shifts thirty-five thousand men by rail through Mobile, Alabama, to Chattanooga.