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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 9: battle of Shiloh. March and April, 1862. (search)
me into the Hamburg Road. Within a few days, Prentiss's division arrived and camped on my left, andff-officers to notify Generals McClernand and Prentiss of the coming blow. Indeed, McClernand had aernand, asking him to support my left; to General Prentiss, giving him notice that the enemy was in to General Hurlbut, asking him to support General Prentiss. At that time--7 A. M.--my division was o our left, and directing their course on General Prentiss. I saw at once that the enemy designed t flank, and fall upon Generals McClernand and Prentiss, whose line of camps was almost parallel with of artillery and musketry announced that General Prentiss was engaged; and about 9 A. M. I judged t, as the enemy interposed between him and General Prentiss early in the day. Colonel Stuart was wounas left of Hurlbut's, W. H. L. Wallace's, and Prentiss's divisions, we ought to have eighteen thousail 6, 1862, the five divisions of McClernand, Prentiss, Hurlbut, W. H. L. Wallace, and Sherman, aggr
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 12 (search)
n became manifest that his mind had been prejudiced by the rumors which had gone forth to the detriment of General Grant; for in a few days he issued an order, reorganizing and rearranging the whole army. General Buell's Army of the Ohio constituted the centre; General Pope's army, then arriving at Hamburg Landing, was the left; the right was made up of mine and Hurlbut's divisions, belonging to the old Army of the Tennessee, and two new ones, made up from the fragments of the divisions of Prentiss and C. F. Smith, and of troops transferred thereto, commanded by Generals T. W. Sherman and Davies. General George H. Thomas was taken from Buell, to command the right. McClernand's and Lew Wallace's divisions were styled the reserve, to be commanded by McClernand. General Grant was substantially left out, and was named second in command, according to some French notion, with no clear, well-defined command or authority. He still retained his old staff, composed of Rawlins, adjutant-gener
William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, chapter 14 (search)
s being faintly painted out, and Confederate painted over it! I remembered that hotel, as it was the supper-station for the New Orleans trains when I used to travel the road before the war. I had not the least purpose, however, of burning it, but, just as we were leaving the town, it burst out in flames and was burned to the ground. I never found out exactly who set it on fire, but was told that in one of our batteries were some officers and men who had been made prisoners at Shiloh, with Prentiss's division, and had been carried past Jackson in a railroad-train; they had been permitted by the guard to go to this very hotel for supper, and had nothing to pay but greenbacks, which were refused, with insult, by this same law-abiding landlord. These men, it was said, had quietly and stealthily applied the fire underneath the hotel just as we were leaving the town. About dark we met General Grant's staff-officer near Bolton Station, who turned us to the right, with orders to push on