, 1862-04-16


on Sunday morning: before attack:
3" let. First Division, Aajor-Gcneral McClcz-
Is q Second Division, Brigaaier~Geneza1 W H.
(Third Division. Major- General Wallace, ut Crumps
Landing, 9 miles below.)
+ 4th- Fourth Division, Brigadier General Hur1
Division, three Brigsdes Buck.
lands, H1debrand's and Mcpowen's,l Brigadier
sheh POINT b2sion osmp cossss tie hs
Corinth road; taken as headquafters rebel by
:, s;s Cpmnander.in-c Chief Sunday afternoon,
Division, forming extreme left Of our whole
50 6th-"-sl1th Division, Brigadier General Prcn-
tise.
We are again dependent upon the Cincin-
natl papers for the details Of the late fight at
Pittsbu1g. The following narrative from the
GdzeHe is akin to what We expected from our
own correspondent who was wounded on
Sunday:
TYPOGRAPHICAL POSITION OF oUR TROOPS.
And first, ofour positions: Let the reader
understand that the Pittsburg Landing is sim
ply narrow rayine, down which road passes
to the river bank, between high bluffs on either
side. There is no tewn at all-two log huts
comprise all the improvements visible. Back
from the river is q rolling country, cut up
with numerous ra1ines, partially under culti
EatloD, but perhaps the greater part thicEly
wooded with some undeTbrust. The soil is
clayey, and the roads on Sunday morning were
good. From the Landing road leads d1rect
to Corinth, twenty miles distant. 4 mile or
lower Corinth road, the other the ridge Cor
inth read. 4 short distance ont, another road
takes off to the left, crosses Lick Greek, and
leads back to the river at Hamburg, some
miles further up. On the right, two Separate
roads lead off to Pundy, and another, new
one, across Snake Greek to Crump's Landing
on the river below. Besides these, the whole
country inside our lines is cut up with roads
leading 10 our different camps and beyond
the lines is the most inextricahle maze of
cross roads, lntersecting everything and Lead
ing everywhere, in which it Was ever my i'll
fortune to become eutaugled-
On and between these roads, at distance of
from two to four or five miles from Pittsburg
Landing, lay five divisions Of Major General
Grants army that Sunday morning. The ad-
ance line was formed by three divisions
3rlG: Gen. Sherman's, Brig. Gen. Premises,
and Major Gen. .tMcC Clernand's Between these
and the Landing lay the two others-Brig.
manded, In the absence {from sickness) Of
that admirable officer, by Brig. Gen. ". q. T..
Wallace
Our advance line, beginning 1t the extreme
left, WAS thus formed: On the Hamburg road,
just this side the crossing Of Lick creek and
under bluffs on the opposite bank that com.
manded the position, lay Col D. Stuart's brl-
gade Of Gen. Sherman's division. Some three
OF four miles distant from this brigade, on the
lower Corinth road and between that and the
one to Putdy, lay the remaining brigades Of
Sherman's division, McDowel1's forming the
extreme right Of our whole advance line, Hi
debrand's coming next to It, and Buckland's
M, R111l- h - 3o
rather behind portion Of shermau's, lay Maj.
Gen. McCleruand's division, and between it
and Stuart's brignde, already mentioned as
forming our extreme left, lay Brig. Gen. Prem
tiss's division, completing the line.
Back Of this line, within mile Of the Land
the Corinth road, and ". e. L. Wallace's to
bis right Such was the position of our troops
at Pittsburg Landing, at dAybreak Sunday
morning Maj. Gen. Lew Wallace's Division
lay at Crump's Landing, some miles below,
and was not ordered up TIL about half past
eeven O'Clock that day.
It is idle to criticise arrangements now-it
is so easy to be wise after matter is over-but
the reader will hardly fail to observe the essen.
tlal defects Of such arrangements. Nearly
four miles interviewed between the different
parts Of sherman's Division. OF course to
COMMAND the one, be must neglect the other
MeClernand's lay partially behind Sherman,
and therefore, not stretching far enough to the
left, there was gap between him and Prem.
tiss, which the rebels did not fail speedily tt
find. Our extreme left WAS commanded by
ungua1ded heights, easily approachnble from
Corinth. And the whole arrangement wa:
confused and ill-adjusted.
TIE REBEL PLAN OF ATrACK
During Friday and Saturday the rebels ha6
marched out Of Corinth, about seventy thou
sand strong, in threee great divisions Sidney
Johnston 1}a ~ I'm ~
army, and particularly Of the center. Bra1to1
Bragg and Beauregard had the wingB. Hardee
Polk, Breck1nridge, Cheatham and others helt
subordinate commands. On Thursday John
ston Issued a proclamation to the army, an
nouncing to them IN grandiloquent terms thu
he 8as about to lead them against the tnYa
ders, and that they would soon celebrate th
| great, decisive victory of the war, in Hhic]
they had repelled the invading column, n
deemed Tennessee, and preserved the South
ern Confederacy.
| onerB to have been to strike our centre first
composed, as the reader will remember, G
f1entiss' and McClernand's divisions pierre
| the center, and then pour in their troops {
attack on each side the wings into which the
would thus cut our army.
To accomplish this, they should have struc
the lett OF the three brigadcs Of Sherman's d
vision which lay on our right, and the left {
McClernand's, which came to the front O
Sherman's left. By some mistake, hoTeye
they struck Sherman's left alone, and that bI
few moments before portion Of their righ
wing swept up against Prentiss.
| TROOPS FIRST ATTACKED.
| The troops thus attacked, By six o'clock, {
before i, were as follows: The left OF She
mans br1gndes, that Of Col. Buckland, WI
composed Of the I'D Ohio, Lieut. Colon
Cantield, commanding; 48th Ohio, Col sull
yan; 10th Ohio, Col. Cockerell; and SD Obi
COL Appler.
To the right of this WIS Col. Hndebraud
brigade, 18th Ohio, Lieut. Col commanding
59th Ohio, Col Pfyffe, and SD Illinois. Al
on the extreme right, Col McDowell's hril
ade, 9th Iowa, {Col. Mcdowell ca
commanding), doth Illinois, Col, Hicks: 4Gt
| Ohio, Col, Thos. Wolthington.
] Gen. Prentiss' division Eas composed
the I2tL Michigan, 10th WISCONSIN, 18th Wi
consin, 18sh Missouri, ESD Missouri, 25th hi
sou.i and 8lst Illinois.
THE RATTLE ON sT1NnAy
N.--.s,4 -. ~ soNo1"
oeh AAa soafAAsHo.
/ Almost at dawn, she.man's pickets we
driven in, very little later Prentiss' Wer
and the enemy uere into the camps almost
. Here began scenes which, let Us hope, "
nave no parallel in~onr renaining annals
tae Har. Many, Particularly among our OF
eeIe, Mesenoe Jet out Of bed. Others we
aressanG: Others washing, others cooking, a fe
eeanng tne1 ofeak1ast- Many guns were q
n1tlon vas u supplied short, the cam
WS comP!e5ely sarpt1sed disgraeefnll
mlgnE De aoaeo, 1nless some one can hereafs
glse SONS ye& uaaiscoFefed reason TO the CO
tEaIy--aad were taken At almost every possit
The first wild cries from the plckets rushi
. in, and the few scattering shots that preced
: their ar11yal, aroused the regiments to d sen