Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-04-03

WA IQC UdLIlcnClu VI olIIlOh' -
death Of General Albert Sidney
Johnston the Confederates had lost a
chieftain who had justified the conn
dence of his troops by leading them to
victory the day before. Grant army,
driven from it's camps, lay IN the open
in a pitiless rain around the
landing on Tennessee river, which had
barely been saved from capture by the
Confederates on Sunday. The soldiers
of the enemy slept in the tents OF
Grants captured camps. General Beau
regard, the Confederate leader who
took command after ~Johnston's fall,
rested in the tent formerly occupied
by Sherman near the little log chapel of
Shiloh which gave the name to the
battlefield.
On the field where they had been shot
down during the fighting of Sunday lay
10000 or 1900 dead or wounded men
in blue and gray. Over 1000 Federal
prisoners from the divisions of General
Prentiss and General w. I'll. L. Wallace
were under guard near the headquar-
fers Of Beauregard at Shiloh church,
the ground where Sherman had rallied
his line to meet the sudden attack on
Sunday morning. Prentiss met some
of his old acquaintance among his
captors. During the night Of gloom he
kept his poise and said to the exulting
Confederates: you gentlemen have
had your way today, but it will be very
different tomorrow. You'll see. Buell.
will effect a junction with Grant to-
might, and We'll turn the tables On you
in the morning"
The weary sleepers at Shiloh church
were aroused. early on Monday morn
ing by the rattle of musketry and the
boom of guns off toward the Landing,
and Prentiss exclaimed: "Ah, didn't |
tell YOU so? There is Buell!' Through
out the night of Sunday steamers Of
all descriptions had been at work fer
rying the divisions of BuelPs Army Of
the Ohio across Tennessee river to re-
enforce the army of Grant. Part Of
Nelson's division had reached h bat
tlefeld the afternoon OF Sunday and
helped repulse the last charge made by
the COnfederates upon Grants defeated
troops above the Landing. The divisions
of McCook and Crittenden all crossed
during the night and marched to the
front, where the most active C~Onfeder-
ates had been seen when night closed
I'm on the 9th. This was the ground along
the river above the Landing, the left
wing of the Federal army as it went
into battle on the It'll, Shiloh's second
day. This part of the field, the scene
of BuelPs advance on the morning Of
April Z, was traversed by a road lead
ing from the Landing to Shiloh church
and beyond to COrinth. Corinth, Miss,
dwenty-three miles from PittSburg Land
ing, was the point aimed at by Grant
when he could get his army, with
Buell's requirements, in hand. From
Corinth the Confederates had marched
stealthily northward to Overwhelm
Grant before the arrival Of Buell..
They succeeded in the battle Of Sun
day in driving him from his camps
along the COrinth roads back to the
river bluffs around the Landing.
Grant and Buell. were both major
generals and under the command Of
General Halleck, who vas not on the
uC1ds IIdhI was L1C SAAAO OAANOA ~
date of commission, but he left the
control of Buell's troops to Buell..
Grants own army formed the right
wing of the united force as it faced the
enemy for battle on Monday. The di-.
vision of Lew Wallace, which owing
to an accident had not been in the bat
tie Of Sunday, held the extreme right;
on the left of Wallace the remains of
/, Sherman's division; then McClernand's
|, and Hurlburt's, with some regiments
of the divisions of w. FL. l.. Wallace,
HurIburt and Prentiss distributed IN
h line. Lew Wallace opened the bat
tie of Monday on the right and Mel
sons division of Buell's army on the left.
Sherman received orders from Grant
at daylight on the 9TH to advanc n
recapture his ground Of the day before
around Shiloh church. He waited I'M
til 10 o'clock, when the sound OF guns
on the left, where Buell. was advanc-
inc, told him that the Army Of the Ohio
was driving the C~onfederates back
along the road to Shiloh church. Sher-
mans advance was slow, for there
was a gap between his line and that OF
W NO O.
Lew Wallace, off to the right.
Nelson's bold advance on the left
was checked at the outset by the Con-
federate artillery. Nelson had no guns,
as his troops had hurried to field, leav-
inc baggage and batteries on the other
side of the river. Buell. sent Nelson
two batteries from Crittenden's divi-
sion. and, with the help of their fire,
Nelson's leading brigade, under Hazen,
charged and captured the Confederate
battery which blocked their road for
ward. Two other batteries of the enc
my opened upon Hazen, and at the
same time a brigade Of C~onfederates
charged the intrepid ranks. In this
terrific combat the Forty-frst Ohio lost
140 killed and wounded out of 81 in
line.
Crittenden's division took up the tight
on the right of Nelson. The bloodlest
combat Of This division was In the