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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 18 : (search)
Chapter 18:
Fall of Island no.10, April fifth
battle of Shiloh, April sixth
capture of guns
General Albert Sidney Johnston killed
the battle resumed at Daybreak
the enemy are reenforced by Buell
the Confederate army retreats
great loss
false reports of the Federal Generals.
Corinth, Miss., April 10th, 1862.
Dear Tom: In exchange for your last entertaining epistle, I send the following hurried scrawl.
It would seem that the army of the West bids fair to rival that ready crossed the river, and was camped at a place rejoicing in some dozen houses, and having Shiloh for its name.
Johnston gathered every man he could, and marched out to give battle.
We camped within five miles of Shiloh on Saturday night, April fifth, and could plainly see the long line of camp-fires.
Our cavalry had been closer for many days before our arrival, and were noticed by the enemy, but not molested.
Early next morning, (Sunday,) and long before dawn, our line of battle was qui