 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 Confederate Heartland Offensive. On September 14, Price occupied Iuka, Mississippi, as part of his movement; additional Confederate forces under the command of Major General Earl Van Dorn were only a four-days march away. Major General Ulysses S. Grant, one of the top Union commanders in the region, wanted to avoid the possibility of Price and Van Dorn joining forces. To accomplish this goal, Grant sent troops commanded by Major General E. O. C. Ord to attack Iuka from the north, and others under Major General William Rosecrans to attack the city from the south. During the ensuing 