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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 a complete surprise. Many of the officers were yet slumbering; others were dressing; others were washing or cooking, and others were eating breakfast. Their guns were unloaded, and accouterments. were strewn around without order. Many of the troops were without a sufficient supply of ammunition. The first intimation that the Confederates were close upon them in force, was the wild cry of the flying pickets rushing into the camps, and the Pickets on duty. this is from a sketch by W. Homer, published in Harper's Weekly, showing the manner of watching for an enemy by out-lying picket in the woods. scream and crash of s hells and the whistle of bullets as they flew on deadly errands through the tents and forest. A few minutes afterward, Hardee's eager troops were pouring like a flood into the camps of the bewildered Nationals, fighting desperately here, driving half-dressed or half-armed fugitives there, an d dealing death and terror on every hand. It was an unexpected assau