May 30, 1862---Querulous Halleck quails at Quaker guns

MAY 30, 1862:            

After being delayed for a day by the fear of Quaker guns, General Henry W. Halleck U.S.A. takes Corinth, Mississippi, and finds that P.G.T. Beauregard has policed up the entire city---not one bloody bandage has been left behind. The Siege of Corinth is over.