, 1875-07-22
GEN. BHEnMAN AND sH1LoH AGAIN.

MAN for saying that "Gen. CHANT did not
make IN oflcinl report Of the battle Of Shiloh u
| originated with the Louisville Courier-Jour-
nat, aud was made "to show the authors
general inaccuracy." Tho Courser-]ouruas
rosnrna to the charge nfter reading THE Tn1B-
uEEs scmi-of1lcial explanation Of the matter,
md finds in Tic "1aebellion Record briof
letter writtan By Gen. GRANT to Con. HAL
1KcI's Iassistant-Ad iutant- General, aud gives
somo extracts which ve produce as m inter-
esting bit Of history:
HEADQUARTERS D1sra1cr wRar4sx Ttnsxss1,
rrT1sDunu, April ., 1S63-To Capt. 4. Il. Mclean,
A.. G., Department u N.sstsnppt, ~ Louis Car
TAIN: II becomes my duty again to report another
bAto fought beveeu Two groat arrnies ons oontend-
tug for tho maintenance Of ths beet Government syt7
derlsed and the other for tts Destruction pleas
ant to record The auccoss ot tbs army oontondug for
The former principle.
On Sunday morning Our p,ckets VITO sttactsd And
driven In ~ Ito enemy. Immediately tbs frs dv!s-
ions stationed At ths pscs ua1s drawn up III line ot
battle 10 moot them.
Tho battls wa1ed warm On the In aud con t.e
varying 1t tncs to al parta u tue no TLore was tha
most continuous firing Of uskory and artillery aver
hard On this continent kept up until nightfau
Tlc enemy harng forced tho ceutru linz TO fall bact
laso hour in the sitornoon desperate effort Was mAo
~ the enemy to turn laft aud Tct pos4esaon OF
the landing, Transports, Ao.
A. there Ia deep aud nrAs1aho rayne for artillery
md cavalry, and vpry difficult for inianlry n this
pontt no 1ooa wGso stationed hotB except tbs peccs.
sasy arttisrsts and sna infantry force for their
support. Just at this moment tho nlvapco Of Nal.
Gen. DUELL'a column and part OF tho division Of
Con. NELSON arrived. the two Generals named beluo
present. An advance was Immediately made upon the
pomt OF attack, aud The cncuy wa driven back
In this Fapuse much u duo to the presence os the gun
boats and thoir sbIo commanders
During the night ths divisions under Cons, Car1-
TKNnEa and Mccook arrived.
lnctoso herewith : rcpors Of Gen. s1xnMAn which
viii explain fully the rsauit OF tbs pursuit. and
af the part takca BY each soparate command.
1t soe1ns, then, that Con. CHANT did mako
report, which was porhapa official In its
charactor, since it was sent to tho Adjutai.t-
Gonoral Of tho officer commanding tho d.
partment But wo fail to SOC that this in
valilates tho explanation which we malo Of
tho matter, or TINT it illustrates Gen. SItEn-
MANS "genera inaccuracy." Con. SIBERIAN
had before him volume containing one hun
dret and sizteen reports, which Ind been
transmitted to tho senate by tho Secretary Of
War, in response to call Of that body, a. al
the official reports Of tho "Battles OF Pitts.
burg Landing" This was certainly full war
rant for Gen. SuERMANs statement, mud It
was not incumbent on him to look further
for report which tho Secretary Of War did
not have long altar thu battle, and after he
had received ono hundred and sixteen other
reports about the same battlea- Either
the Secretary of War did not 70.
gard Con. GnANra lo!tor to Capt. MCLEAN
aa an official report, or elso Ggn. I1A1lEuK
did not 30 regard it, md did not transmit 1t
to the Secretary Of War. The Cour<r-Jour-
nal inclines to tho latter opinion, but other
prohibits tho citation Of this lattor AZ a proof
Of Con. snEnnAN'a "general inaccu1aoy."
The pittsburg Chronicle, commenting on the
matter, assiGns aa q reason why Gen. GnANr
never maele IN official report TINT he could
not do 80 without Rejecting upon the iudg-
ment Of Gen. PaENT1as, who was capturol,
with tho most OF his brigade, on the morning
Of the first days battle. but this is manifostly
incorrect, since Gen. GnAs1, In hia latter to
Capt McLEAH quoted above, makes COM
plisnentary allusion to Gen PaENr1Ba. The
glst Of the whole matter Is that Gen. GRANT
wrote letter to Gen. HlL1xox'a Adtutant,
which either Con. HA11zok or the Secretary
Of War did not regard as on ofacih report,
and which waa not included among tho othcr
official reports sent TO tbs Senate. Thia fully
justitios Gen. SuEaMAN's statement,