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Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 20: (search)
sing. General Beauregard's efforts to check it. Collects stragglers and pushes them forward. battle still raging. capture of General Prentiss and of his command. our troops reach the Tennessee river. Colonel Webster's batteries. arrival of Ammen's brigade, Nelson's division, of Buell's army. its inspiriting effect upon the enemy. the gunboats. intrepidity of our troops. their brilliant but ineffectual charges. firing gradually slackens, as the day declines. at dusk General Beauregaout that time, had been busy at this work since three o'clock. The line of bluffs masked all view of the river; but, in fact, General Buell's Army of the Ohio was also now arriving from Savannah, on the opposite bank, below Pittsburg Landing, and Ammen's brigade, of Nelson's advance division, had been thrown across and placed in support of Webster's battery, at five o'clock. Generals Buell and Nelson were both present on the field. General Nelson's Report, Record of the Rebellion, vol. IV.
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, Chapter 21: (search)
k with the loss of a battery. they regain the position and battery at 9. critical situation of Ammen's brigade. New position assumed by the Confederates. Crittenden's division engaged. absence o, and compelling that officer to call earnestly for aid. Meanwhile, Nelson's left brigade, under Ammen, was sorely pressed, and was in serious danger of being turned on its left. This brigade [sccurate firing, silenced the enemy's first battery, which was aiding the infantry force pressing Ammen. Subsequently, the enemy repeated the attack, and endangered both the brigade and Terrell's bat least twenty thousand fresh troops, in addition to Lew. Wallace's command, in addition also to Ammen's brigade of Nelson's division, whose timely crossing, the day before, had saved the Federals fr with over forty thousand men of all arms, and were reinforced that day by the timely arrival of Ammen's brigade, of General Buell's army. During the night of the 6th and the next morning they were
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865, chapter 27 (search)
line. There was the most continuous firing of musketry and artillery ever heard on this continent, kept up until nightfall. 18. General Buell, in his Report (Record of the Rebellion, vol. IV. p. 410), says: General Nelson arrived with Colonel Ammen's brigade at this opportune moment. It was immediately posted to meet the attack at that point, and, with a battery of artillery, which happened to be on the ground and was brought into action, opened fire on the enemy and repulsed him. The newed. Night having come on, the firing ceased on both sides. 19. General Nelson (Record of the Rebellion, vol. IV. p. 413), in his Report, says: The gallantry of the 36th Indiana, supported by the 6th Ohio, under the. able conduct of Colonel Ammen, commanding the 10th brigade, drove back the enemy and restored the line of battle. This was at half-past 6 P. M., and soon after the enemy withdrew, owing, I suppose, to the darkness. 20. From a narrative of the battle of Shiloh, entitle