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William A. Rankin (search for this): chapter 4.11
eigned supreme. The little church was known Ununiformed but fearless Southern soldiers A photograph of the Ninth Mississippi taken a few months before it fought at Shiloh. In this military line of coatless men we see as brave a fighting unit as ever, with all the glitter and panoply of war, swept into the tide of battle. Here they stand, ununiformed but fearless. Attached to Chalmers' Brigade on the extreme right at the opening of Shiloh these soldiers were commanded by Lieut.-Col. William A. Rankin. They dashed forward in the fierce attack that caused the surrender of Prentiss' division. General Chalmers wrote of the bravery of these Mississippians when attacked in turn next day. As a last resort, I seized a battle-flag from the color-bearer of the Ninth Mississippi and called them to follow. With a wild shout the whole regiment rallied to the charge, and we drove the enemy back and reoccupied our first position of the morning, which we held until the order of retreat wa
Ulysses S. Grant (search for this): chapter 4.11
f Withers' gallant attack The defenders of Grant's last line at Shiloh: guns that held their gr 6, 1862. In one of the backward movements of Grant's forces in the afternoon of that day General g scenes of the early conflict in the West did Grant pay higher tribute than to this veteran of thee were ominous rumors of the coming storm; but Grant was so sure that Johnston would not attack thaoned with a division of seven thousand men. As Grant passed Crump's Landing, he met Wallace and ord instant marching when he was called for. When Grant arrived at Pittsburg Landing, about eight o'clbattle tide that saved the Federal cause. General Grant's headquarters in the early morning of Aprhen Buell's army, that had been hurrying up to Grant's assistance, reached the battle-field, Gwin seted with the roar of cannon. The troops that Grant now advanced into the contest were all, exceptssippi so as not to embarrass the movements of Grant and the gunboats. Of this unattached cavalry [9 more...]
J. B. Hood (search for this): chapter 4.11
ois. He was with Grant at Paducah, at Forts Henry and Donelson, and at Shiloh where he collected the artillery near the Landing that repelled the final Confederate attack on April 6th. He remained Chief of Staff until October, 1862. On October 14th, he was made a Brigadier-General of Volunteers, and was appointed superintendent of military railroads in the Department of Tennessee. Later he was Chief of Staff to General Sherman, and again proved his worth when he was with General Thomas at Hood's defeat before Nashville in December, 1864. On March 13, 1865, he received the brevet of Major-General of Volunteers. Meantime, the Union army had moved southward and was concentrating at Pittsburg Landing, on the Tennessee River, an obscure stopping place for boats in southern Tennessee, and some twenty miles northeast from Corinth. The name means more now than merely a landing place for river craft. It was clear that two mighty, hostile forces were drawing together and that ere lo
Mitchell (search for this): chapter 4.11
t exertions of the engineers to keep the Federal Army in touch with its base and at the same time to oppose a front to General Bragg. In the first Confederate retreat through Kentucky almost all of the causeways had been destroyed, and when Buell arrived at Bowling Green, which is north of Nashville and on the bank of the Big Barren River, that stream was found to be almost flooding its banks. Here the nineteenth Regiment Michigan Engineers rebuilt the bridge almost at the place where General Mitchell had crossed early in the year. The middle part of the bridge was composed of fourteen pontoons. Federals advancing into Tennessee--1862: Engineers and Infantry busy at the Elk River Bridge Incessantly, through rain or shine, the work on this bridge over the Elk River, near Pulaski, Tennessee, on the Central Alabama Railroad, went on during the months of June and July. The engineers had before them an enormous task. The Federal General Buell's army was short of supplies and ammu
Henry W. Elson (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 Grant's last line at Shiloh: guns that held their ground at Pittsburg Landing These heavy guns when this picture was taken had not been moved from the actual position they held in the afternoon of the battle of Shiloh, April 6, 1862. In one of the backward movements of Grant's forces in the afternoon of that day General Prentiss, isolated by the retirement of troops in his flanks, fought till overwhelmed by the Confederates, then surrendered the remnant of his division. Encouraged by this success General Bragg ordered a last desperate charge in an effort to turn the left of the re-formed Federal line. Onward swept the Confederates toward a grim line of batt
Sterling Price (search for this): chapter 4.11
n 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 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 of Grant and the gunboats. Of this unattached cavalry of the Army of the Ohio were the men in the first picture--Company D, Fourth Kentucky Volunteers, enlisted at Louisville, December, 1861. Company D, Fourth Kentucky Volunteers, enlisted at Louisville, December, 1861. Officers of the Fourth Kentucky Cavalry General Beauregard made
Benjamin Prentiss (search for this): chapter 4.11
ements of Grant's forces in the afternoon of that day General Prentiss, isolated by the retirement of troops in his flanks, ivision of the Union army, which was commanded by General Benjamin Prentiss, of West Virginia. Before Prentiss could form hiPrentiss 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 nexforward in the fierce attack that caused the surrender of Prentiss' division. General Chalmers wrote of the bravery of thest battle that raged near it on that memorable day. General Prentiss had borne the first onset of the morning. He had beers' brigades as they made their way to the surrounding of Prentiss. Later on the Lexington joined her sister, and the two vonfederate army from the Landing. After the surrender of Prentiss, General Withers set his division in motion to the right und and tents of the night before. They had captured General Prentiss with some thousands of his men as a result of his bra
William Preston Johnston (search for this): chapter 4.11
he division that he had expected to reenforce him had been withdrawn by the order of General Beauregard. To his men working their way up the slope came the order to retire. General Chalmers, of Withers Division, did not get the word. Down in the ravine his 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
Hurlbut (search for this): chapter 4.11
derate 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 Grder, Albert Sidney Johnston, received his death wound as he was urging his troops to force back Hurlbut's men. He was riding in the center of the fight, cheering his men, when a minie ball cut an art and the two vessels gave valuable support to the Union cannon at the edge of the ravine and to Hurlbut's troops until the contest ended. All that night, in the downpour of rain, Lieutenant Gwin, atat Buell's army had come. The advance guard had arrived late in the afternoon and had assisted Hurlbut in the closing scene on the bluff of Dill's ravine; others continued to pour in during the nighthe 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
Robert Anderson (search for this): chapter 4.11
sted men of the Washington Artillery of New Orleans. Not one of the lads here pictured is within a year of his majority. We hardly realize how young the fighters on both sides were; only their faces and the records can show it. At Shiloh, with Anderson's brigade of brave fighters, these young cannoneers answered to the call. Anderson was first in the second line of battle at the beginning. Before the action was twenty minutes old he was at the front; and with the advance, galloping over the Anderson was first in the second line of battle at the beginning. Before the action was twenty minutes old he was at the front; and with the advance, galloping over the rough ground, came the Washington 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 hal
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