 Complete the following phrase:  On May 1, while stationed in the vicinity of Memphis, Tennessee, the battery officially elected its officers. A muster conducted on May5 at Corinth, Mississippi, found 62 men in the battery; it also noted that the battery was armed with four cannons. Union troops had previously occupied positions near the city on May 3, beginning the siege of Corinth. During the siege, Landiss Battery held a strong redoubt with its four cannons, dueling with Union batteries at a range of . The battery also fought in a skirmish in the vicinity on May 28 before the Confederates abandoned the city on the night of May 2930. Landiss Battery then spent the next several months stationed at various points in Mississippi. In September 1862, Price, now commanding the Army of the West, was preparing for an offensive designed to support the 