The Daily Dispatch: April 17, 1862., [Electronic resource]

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Federal account of the fight at Shiloh

The which we published in our paper of yesterday, giving the enemy's account of the great fight at Shiloh, is important, conveying as it does their own admission of the heavy losses which they sustained. This is perhaps, the most frank and sincere account they have given of any engagement the war commenced; and although they have the effrontery to claim a victory, it mainly that they feel themselves whipped. Twenty thousand is the less they as, and of these no less than five general officers. Crittenden, son of the or from Kentucky, is among the The two Wallaoss and Sherman are also numbered among the dead. Buell, they is mortally wounded, while Pr it is known, is a prisoner. Need we any further evidence than these admissions to us that the of our arms was and glorious?

They claim that the gallant Beauregard was on our side. This statement no doubt from the full of the lamented Johnston, whose desin deprives our victory in a great measure of its rich fruits — Altogether we have mach cense for gratitude it the result of this great struggle.