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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 23: Shiloh, 1862.-Corinth. (search)
he Confederate forces cut the centre off from the landing soon after General Johnston's fall. When General Beauregard sent the order for the battle to cease, Nelson's division of Buell's army had just arrived on the opposite bank of the river at Pittsburg, and was preparing to cross and go to the rescue of a beaten and demoralized army. The junction of the two Federal armies that General Johnston had tried to anticipate had been made. In the History of the Sixth Ohio Regiment, by E. Hannaford, the arrival of Nelson is thus described: On reaching the river opposite the battlefield, General Nelson looked in vain for the promised boats. The two or three sternwheel steamers that were lying under the eastern bank, had come over simply to avoid the rush of the mob on the farther shore, not, however, until after some scores of the scared wretches had succeeded in getting on board. Nelson had almost to force the captains of these boats to take his foremost regiment, the Th