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The Daily Dispatch: April 24, 1862., [Electronic resource], article 8 (search)
chments, from behind which the enemy was enabled to pour in a most destructive fire, and make a determined stand. The attack of Sunday. As you are already informed by telegraph, the Confederates on this occasion acted wholly upon the offensive. Early in the week Beauregard and Johnston had information of the contemplated advance of the enemy as soon as a union of the forces under Buell and his front division, which was commanded in detail by Grant, Wallace, McClernand, Prentiss, and Smith, could be effected. To prevent this wholesale demonstration, it was determined to press the issue without delay. --Orders were published to our army to prepare three days rations, and put itself in light marching order; and on Saturday the preparations on our side were complete, and most of the brigades were in position within two and a half miles of Shiloh. I forgot to mention, by the way, that this is the name of a small town, distant from the river between three and four miles, and was