Tallahatchie River Defense Line

Following their defeat in the battle of Corinth, Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton established a line of defense on the Tallahatchie River in November 1862. Union Gen. U.S. Grant, moving down the Mississippi Central Railroad, expected to fight Pemberton's army on this line. A Union cavalry raid from Arkansas toward Grenada, however, convinced Pemberton that his left flank was threatened, and in early December he fell back to Grenada and the Yalobusha River line.

Mississippi · United States