The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-01-24

POSITION OF FEDERAL TRO(
Adjutants-GeneraI were received, stating
that our outpOsts had been attacked by the
enemy, apparently in considerable force.
/ Immediately went up and found all
quiet.
THE enemy took two officers and four
or five of our men prisoners and wounded
four. We took eight prisoners and killed
several; number of the enemys wounded
not known. They had with them three
pieces of artillery and cavalry and Infan-
try How much, of course, cannot be es-
timated.
Il have scarcely the faintest idea of an
attack general onel being made upon us,
but will be prepared should such thing
take place: Gen. Nelson's Division has ma,
arrived. The other two of Gen. Buelrs
column will arrive tomorrow and next day.
1t is my present intention to send them to
Hamburg some four miles above Pitts
burg when they all get here. From that
point to Corinth the road is good, and
junction can be formed with the troops
from Pittsburg at almost any point Col.
Mcpherson has gone with an escort to-
dag to examine the defensibility of the
ground about Hamburg, and to lay out the
position of the camps, if advisable to oc-
II am. General, very respectfully, your
Obedient servant, L. =. GRANT,
'Major-General.
"Maj.-Gen. II. W. Halleck, Command
ing Department of the Mississippi,
ST. Louis, Mo.
REPORT OF MAJ.-GEN. VIM. j. HORDEE, c. s.
ARMY.
Camp near Mickey's, April 4, 1862.
General: The cavalry and infantry of
the enemy attacked Col. Clanton's regi-
ment, which was posted, as | before in
formed you, about 800 or GOO yards in ad-
vance of M line. Col. Clanton retired.
and the enemy's cavalry followed until
they came near our infantry and artillery.
when they were calamity repulsed with
slight loss.
Every respectfully.
OWN J. HARDEE, Major-General.
"Gen. Braxton Braggs, Chief of Staff.
Mickey's House in on the Bark road,
four miles southwest of Shiloh Church,
and at the crossing and intersection of sew
eral roads, and the point designated for
concentration of Confederate forces April
4, to be in readiness to attack Gen. Grants
position on the morning of the 9th, as
planned. The skirmish referred to in the
foregoing dispatches was between Mick
ey's House and Shiloh Church, with the
enemy's cavalry covering the advance of
Uardee's Corps. which had arrived on the
morning of the 4th.
The fact that in this skirmsh the en-
emys artillery and infantry were deyel-
oped in such close proximity to his front
should have warned Gen. Sherman that
the enemy were there in force to attack;
but it appears from his dispatch to Gen.
Grant next day reporting the AFFAIR, in
which he says, Il do not apprehend any
thing like an attack, such was not the
case; a misapprehenSion of the enemy's
movements at n critical moment, which
came near proving most disastrous to our
army.
GEN. JoHN5ToN MOVES TO ATTACK.
"After the fall of Fort Donelson the
Commanding General, Albert Sidney John
ston, having successfully achieved his re-
treat through Tennessee, amid many diff
ficuities, rapidly concentrated all his re-
naming forces at COrinth for the pur-
pose of infiicting a decisive blow upon the
enemy. ThepOsition was important, from
being the center of the railroad communi-
cations passing southwardy from the
Ohio River through Western Tennessee to
the Gulf of Mexico, and from the MisSis-
sippi River eastwardly to the Atlantic.
Marshes and muddy streams in its Yicin-
ity rendered it strong and defensible.
1.-The enemy, flushed with their recent
success, moved forward to conquer the
territory on the left of the Mississippi.
Large forces were transported on steamers
conveyed by ironclad gunboats, under the
command of Gen. Grant, to Pittsburg,
while an army under Gen. Buell., com
manding the remaining forces of the
United States in the West, moved from
Nashville through Columbia by land to eff
feet q junction with Gen. Grant. Gen.
Johnston having received information of
these movements, resolved at once to de-
feat or dislodge Gen. Grant before the
arrival of the forces under Gen. Buell. !
On Thursday, April 3, the Army of the |
Mississippi was ordered to advance from |
Corinth toward Shiloh q little country |