Morning journal and courier., 1881-04-07
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. |lHB BATTLE OF SHILOH. General Sherman's "Reminiscences of
 the Fight. IA MOST VALUABLE VICTORY. Its Disastrous Effect on Southern PreWess. THE TALK IN THE SENATE Another Day in the Weary Round
 of Debate.
 THE WEST.
 Ohio.
A MOST VALUABLE VICTORY.
THE TALK IN THE SENATE
Another Day in the Weary Round
 of Debate.
THE WEST.
 Ohio.

The Battle of shiloh-some False Idea Dissipated-An Interesting Paper by General sherman.
 CINCINNATI, April 6.-The- Army of thu
 Tennessee held business meeting this morn Ling, General Sherman in the chair. Ths treasurer's report showed $1 1885. 10 on hand Letters of regret were placed on file from 12(
 of the old officers and others, including Generals Grant, Moves, Wertzel, Hancock Rice, Schofeld, Logan and Secretaries Blaine and Lincoln, President Garfield and Vice President Arthur. General Sherman theT
 read long account of the battle of Shiloh
 giving number of interesting incidents
 which had never appeared in print. He
 passed several charts among the audience
 upon which were number of corrections tc
 the standard map drawn up by General Hal
 locks staff officers. These corrections he e1
 plained, and after giving several corrections to the historical account of the battle closed his paper as follows:
 All accounts agree that General c. V. F. Smith posted the army at Pittsburg Landing to fulfill Gen.
 General Grant succeeded to the command and exsr- cised at the time of the battle and that the divs
 ion commanders ranked in order of Mcclellan, Lew
 Wallace, Sher- an, Hurlbut, Prentiss and W. H. L.
 Wallace. Yet often held responsible by critics i3f t s. 'ns & ana a oi
 previously accommodated the country forward for ten miles, and had been skirmishing with the enemy for several days prior to the battle. have never
 been in battle but somebody was surprised good one who had not notice be ready for any thing and everything that might happen and the re-
 been eIplodsd Prentiss division and mne were in the extreme front and all ready when the blow came. and all the others were behind ns and had ample 110 afrSaTo on the west bank of the Tenness with the purpose to attack the ensmy's position at Coristh General vile to reinforce us and the rebel General AL bert Sydney Johnston resolved not to await our at arrive. His army was divided into three corps manded by Polk, Bragg and Hardee. with reserve ture or destroy rs-enforcements could arrive. He failed in this most signaIly and there preciated at that time and not fully comprehended today but that victory was one of the most import sipated fo ever that nonsense of one southern man whipping dozen Yankees. It gave us a prestige at Iuka at vicksburg, Chattanooga, Atlanta Colunn bia Raleigh to the end of the war; to insure ab Of the Army of the at Fort Donnelson and Shiloh most valuable because of the moral effect corresponding degree shook the confidence of the southerners in their own prowess for at no subse- hemence and perseverance as on the morning of April S. He then read account of the battle in the COtTleT-JOuT3lut, line was driven back to the river. and referred to several other similar accounts, which he declared were untrue. The center of our lines. he said, two miles from the steamboat landing on the even ing of April 6.
 Short addresses were made by Generals Miller, Leggett, Buckland, Captain McCor- mick and others correcting the false state ments that have been made in reference to the battle. At p. m. the society attended by the army and navy club, company of the Cincinnati police and the First regiment of Ohio National Guards, left the Burnett House with music playing and banners waving and moved to the esplanade al- ready thronged with thousands. The band struck up stirring air when General Sher- man stepped forward and drew aside the flag that covered the statue in bronze by Rebisso of the brave General McPherson who fell fighting so nobly before Atlanta, July P, 1864. A cheer went up from the throng about Fountain Square, and after brief contemplation of the monument, which is destined to go to Clyde, Ohio, the society returned to the Burnett House. At 7:15 the society, headed by Generals Sher- man and Sheridan, ex-President Hayes, Gen. eral Pope and General Hazen, marched back to Music Hall, where the annual address was delivered by Colonel Orzo Dodd, and short speeches were made by ex-President Hayes, General Phil Sheridan, General Leggett, Gen. eral w. B. Hagen and others.