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Shiloh was a log meeting-house, some two or three miles from
Pittsburg Landing, and on the ridge which divides the waters of
Snake and
Lick creeks, the former entering into the
Tennessee just north of
Pittsburg Landing, and the latter south.
Shiloh was the key to our position, and was held by
Sherman.
His division was at that time
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New Shiloh Church, on the site of the log chapel which was destroyed after the battle. |
wholly raw, no part of it ever having been in an engagement, but I thought this deficiency was more than made up by the superiority of the commander.
McClernand was on
Sherman's left, with troops that had been engaged at
Fort Donelson, and were therefore veterans so far as Western troops had become such at that stage of the war. Next to
McClernand came
Prentiss, with a raw division, and on the extreme left,
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Shiloh spring, in the ravine south of the chapel.
From photographs taken in 1884. |
The spring is on the
Confederate side of the ravine.
Hard fighting took place here, in the early morning of Sunday, between
Sherman's and
Hardee's troops.
Stuart, with one brigade of
Sherman's division.
Hurlbut was in rear of
Prentiss, massed, and in reserve at the time of the onset.
The division of
General C. F. Smith was on the right, also in reserve.
General Smith was
