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's camp at the time) no alarm was given. The division was not called to arms; but officers and men slept as soundly as though the enemy were a thousand miles off. At seven o'clock the enemy were close upon Prentiss. That General rode up to Colonel Peabody, of the Twenty-fifth Missouri, and reprimanded him in these words; "Sir, you have brought on an attack for which I am not prepared." The truth, at that time, had not dawned upon the mind of General Prentiss. He evidently was not aware that the entire army of Beauregard was bearing down upon him to cleave his force from the other divisions. Fifteen minutes later and General Prentiss was a prisoner and Colonel Peabody was killed! The whole affair demands an investigation. Expectation of attack. But it is astonishing that higher officers, knowing the probability of attack, took no visible measures to prepare for it. I have heretofore spoken of General Grant's saying, as early at least as Friday, that he thought an attack