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William J. Hardee (search for this): chapter 4.11
shington Artillery. enter. Certain it is that it was unprepared, and in consequence it fought on the defensive and at a disadvantage throughout the day. General Hardee's corps, forming the first line of battle, moved against the outlying division of the Union army, which was commanded by General Benjamin Prentiss, of West Virginia. Before Prentiss could form his lines Hardee's shells began bursting around him, but he was soon ready and, though pressed back for half a mile in the next two or three hours, his men fought like heroes. Meanwhile the further Confederate advance under Bragg, Polk, and Breckinridge was extending all along the line in frontould distinguish one shot from another. Nelson's division of Buell's army was the first to engage the Confederates. Nelson commanded the Federal left wing, with Hardee and Breckinridge immediately opposed / to him. The Union center was under the command of Generals McCook and Crittenden; the right wing was commanded by McClernan
Daniel Tyler (search for this): chapter 4.11
Shiloh: the first grand battle Henry W. Elson The plucky little wooden gunboat Tyler --its flanking fire on the Confederate troops charging across the ravine of Dill's Branch, close by the river, greatly assisted Hurlbut, Commander of the Federal, left, in holding off Withers' gallant attack The defenders of Grants fears were not shared by his compatriots. Further mention is due the two little wooden gunboats, Tyler and Lexington, for their share in the great fight. The Tyler had lain all day opposite the mouth of Dill's Branch which flowed through a deep, marshy ravine, into the Tennessee just above the Landing. Her commander, Lieuten blue-clad troops appeared through the trees on the river bank, showing that under the continuous and fierce assaults they were failing back upon the Landing. The Tyler, commanded by Lieutenant Gwin, and afterward the Lexington, commanded by Lieutenant Shirk, which arrived at four o'clock, strove to keep the Confederate army from
McCook (search for this): chapter 4.11
at disadvantage, and yet they fought for eight long hours with heroic valor. The deafening roar of the cannon that characterized the beginning of the day's battle was followed by the rattle of musketry, so continuous that no ear could distinguish one shot from another. Nelson's division of Buell's army was the first to engage the Confederates. Nelson commanded the Federal left wing, with Hardee and Breckinridge immediately opposed / to him. The Union center was under the command of Generals McCook and Crittenden; the right wing was commanded by McClernand, with Hurlbut next, while Sherman and Lew Wallace occupied the extreme right. The Confederate left wing was commanded by the doughty Bragg and next to him was General Polk. Shiloh Church was again the storm center and in it The mounted police of the West Stalwart horsemen such as these bore the brunt of keeping order in the turbulent regions fought over by the armies in the West. The bugle call, Boots and saddles!
Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard (search for this): chapter 4.11
e him had been withdrawn by the order of General Beauregard. To his men working their way up the slssippi. Next in command to Johnston was General Beauregard who fought at Bull Run, and who had come that was yielded on the field of Shiloh. Beauregard succeeded to the command on the fall of Johnoats in the river, the charge was repulsed. Beauregard then gave orders to desist from further atta army. When the messenger informed him of Beauregard's order, he inquired if he had already deliv losing all that they had gained. Moreover, Beauregard's army, with its long, muddy march from Corifore. There is every reason to believe that Beauregard would have won a signal victory if neither aicers of the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry General Beauregard made his headquarters. Hour after hour or another horse. Early in the afternoon, Beauregard became convinced that he was fighting a losite and vigorous pursuit, could have captured Beauregard's entire army. But he and all his advisers
Dorn (search for this): chapter 4.11
tured General Prentiss with some thousands of his men as a result of his brave stand at the Hornet's Nest. But their hopes were mingled with grave fears. General Van Dorn with an army of twenty thousand men was hastening from Arkansas to join the Confederate forces at Shiloh; but the roads were bad and he was yet far away. On at last had arrived. Buell and Wallace had brought with them twenty-five thousand fresh troops to be hurled on the Confederates on the morning of the 7th. But Van Dorn had not come. The preponderance of numbers now was with the Union army. Everyone knew that the battle was not over, that the issue A gallant regiment fromons fought over by the armies in the West. The bugle call, Boots and saddles! might summon them to fight, or to watch the movements of the active Confederates, Van Dorn and Price. It was largely due to their daring and bravery that the Confederate forces were held back from the Mississippi so as not to embarrass the movements o
Thomas L. Crittenden (search for this): chapter 4.11
and yet they fought for eight long hours with heroic valor. The deafening roar of the cannon that characterized the beginning of the day's battle was followed by the rattle of musketry, so continuous that no ear could distinguish one shot from another. Nelson's division of Buell's army was the first to engage the Confederates. Nelson commanded the Federal left wing, with Hardee and Breckinridge immediately opposed / to him. The Union center was under the command of Generals McCook and Crittenden; the right wing was commanded by McClernand, with Hurlbut next, while Sherman and Lew Wallace occupied the extreme right. The Confederate left wing was commanded by the doughty Bragg and next to him was General Polk. Shiloh Church was again the storm center and in it The mounted police of the West Stalwart horsemen such as these bore the brunt of keeping order in the turbulent regions fought over by the armies in the West. The bugle call, Boots and saddles! might summon the
John C. Breckinridge (search for this): chapter 4.11
m his lines Hardee's shells began bursting around him, but he was soon ready and, though pressed back for half a mile in the next two or three hours, his men fought like heroes. Meanwhile the further Confederate advance under Bragg, Polk, and Breckinridge was extending all along the line in front of the Federal camps. The second Federal force to encounter the fury of the oncoming foe was the division of General W. T. Sherman, which was cut to pieces and disorganized, but only after it had inflle was followed by the rattle of musketry, so continuous that no ear could distinguish one shot from another. Nelson's division of Buell's army was the first to engage the Confederates. Nelson commanded the Federal left wing, with Hardee and Breckinridge immediately opposed / to him. The Union center was under the command of Generals McCook and Crittenden; the right wing was commanded by McClernand, with Hurlbut next, while Sherman and Lew Wallace occupied the extreme right. The Confederate l
Albert Sidney Johnston (search for this): chapter 4.11
nston (Son of the Confederate General, Albert Sidney Johnston, killed at Shiloh). In the history at Corinth, Mississippi. Next in command to Johnston was General Beauregard who fought at Bull Run, and who had come from Virginia to aid Johnston. There also came Braxton Bragg, whose name had bec1862, they numbered forty thousand. General A. S. Johnston, C. S. A. A brilliant Southern leads was a hard blow to the Confederacy. Albert Sidney Johnston was a born fighter with a natural genit boom of cannon and he quickly realized that Johnston's army had attacked his own at the Landing. was dead, from loss of blood. The death of Johnston, in the belief of many, changed the result at army. One of Johnston's subordinates wrote: Johnston's death was a tremendous catastrophe. Sometiegard succeeded to the command on the fall of Johnston and the carnage continued all the day — till could hold their ground. The Confederate General Johnston, in forming his plans, had intended to le[5 more...]
Withers (search for this): chapter 4.11
iver, greatly assisted Hurlbut, Commander of the Federal, left, in holding off Withers' gallant attack The defenders of Grant's last line at Shiloh: guns that hee opening into the Tennessee River. Into this and up its precipitous side General Withers dashed with two brigades. The gunboats Tyler and Lexington in the river jthe face of this, although finding himself unsupported save by Gage's battery, Withers led on his men. The division that he had expected to reenforce him had been wip the Confederate army from the Landing. After the surrender of Prentiss, General Withers set his division in motion to the right toward this point. Chalmers' and the Federal gunboats and batteries which silenced Gage's battery, the only one Withers had, and played havoc with the Confederate skirmishers. All the rest of the aombardment, and in connection with the field batteries on the bank checked General Withers' desperate attempt on the Landing. The dauntless brigade of Chalmers, who
Marlborough (search for this): chapter 4.11
men alone of the whole Confederate army were continuing the battle. Only after nightfall did he retire. No Confederate who fought at Shiloh has ever said that he found any point on that bloody field easy to assail. Colonel William Preston Johnston (Son of the Confederate General, Albert Sidney Johnston, killed at Shiloh). In the history of America many battles had been fought, but the greatest of them were skirmishes compared with the gigantic conflicts of the Old World under Marlborough and Napoleon. On the field of Shiloh, for the first time, two great American armies were to engage in a mighty struggle that would measure up to the most important in the annals of Europe. And the pity of it was that the contestants were brethren of the same household, not hereditary and unrelenting enemies. At Fort Donelson the western South was not slain — it was only wounded. The chief commander of that part of the country, Albert Sidney Johnston, determined to concentrate the sc
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