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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 2., Chapter 10: General Mitchel's invasion of Alabama.--the battles of Shiloh. (search)
s occurring there. General Grant arrived at Savannah on the 17th of March, and made his Headquarters at the house of Mr. Cherry, eight or nine miles below Pittsburg Landing, which General Smith had chosen for his own. The latter had already selectwhich, in connection with chronic dysentery, contracted while serving in Mexico, proved fatal. He died at the house of Mr. Cherry, on the 25th of April, 1862. General David Stuart's brigade, of Sherman's division, lay on the Hamburg road, near its cen the triumphant Confederate line and the broad and rapid Tennessee River. General Grant, who was at his Headquarters at Cherry's, eight miles away when the battle commenced, There was some disposition to censure General Grant for having his Headhere. On the following morning, hearing the sound of heavy guns up the river, Buell hastened to Grant's Headquarters, at Cherry's, for information. The latter had just started for Pittsburg Landing in a steamer, having left orders for Nelson's divi