The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-16
GEN. LEW WALLACE'S ADDRESS
 DELIVERED AT SHILOH APRIL {
Full Text Of Noted Veterans Attack on Grant, Haeck, Sher man and Other Generals Who Commanded Divisions
 at shiloh Wallace Explains His Own Course.

q uitCu OdTely COReTluk Lut Ilkut Ott ade, but nowhere else so much as rifle pit.
 He knows the surgeons must choose convenient places for the field hospitals; that the ordnance officers must have wagons nearby; extra ammunition for the supply of the regiments and batteries; that non-combatants are out of the way; that the trains are properly packed; that nothing in the least obstructive filters the roads serving communication between commands here and there.
 Tt is true that on Friday Colonel Buck land and Major Kicker, returning from the front, warned General sherman of infantry and artillery before him: Kicker was advancing. Sherman poohpoohed both Buckland and Kicker and said It couldn't be possible. Beauregard was not such fool as to leave his base of ours. It was mere reconnaissance in force
 Precautions Not Taken.
 'In word, my friends, the records will have 1t that, with the two exceptions stated, no precautions were taken against made for battle. Never did an army re- ceive an attack under so many serious disadvantages.
 Tt is downright pleasure now to zee how the larger part of the Army of the Tennessee behaved-how magnificently they received their hunters. The ad- vanced divisions, Shermans and Prem tisss where not already in line, formed under fire. The division commanders all rose to the occasion. w. H. L. Wallace, Hurlbut and McClcrnand, seeing the need of supporting Sherman and Prentiss,. did It upon their own orders. All through the long hours of the terrible Sunday. with scant intermissions for restoring broken lines, the fight went on fiercer growing By noon every intelligent Union man engaged knew himself and the bat tie lost unless the foe could be held back until Buell. could come to the rescue. To ed in battery on the bluff of the landing He never thought of surrender.
 Death of Albert Sidney Johnston.
 Nelson, with his division, crossed the river about sundown, and 1t has been said he saved the Army of the Tennes- see. do not think so. It is my opin- ion. dispassionately given that the chances of Confederate victory went out with the passing of the great soul of AL bert Sidney Johnston. After that. my division having reached the field, what was left of the Army of the Tennesses could have taken care of itself
 All this, my friends, I would have you apply in fair proportion to the credit of the 3lst, 18th and Ath Indiana, and hay | ing. as I hope. made their titles clear give me to speak next of the 11th 23d and 2fth Indiana
 They all belonged to my division, the Third of the Army of the Tennessee, and as whatever of blame or of good report attaches to them is inseparable from the division. prefer in my. further remark: to be governed by that fact
 The division wes very dear to me. could call most of the men by their Chris hood of early youth. strong. healthy handsome, intelligent and of cheerful de- pertinent. Oh, it was sight Nto see the full seven thousand of them in the ire sistible forward swing of the route-ster marching And what words have to give you an idea of them what times they were making their guns talk in the loud controversy of battle!
 There was no limit in reason to my confidence in their courage. which is one | thing. and their capacity to do, which is | another thing. At Donelson had 1 not | seen them with the powder fire in their faces climb the hill whose taking sealed | the fate of the fort?
 Praise for Gen. McGinnis. l Of my colonels George McGinnis should be here today. Braver, better sturdier brigadier-general never bucklet a sword-belt about him. Where are tho | rest? l walk wearily over the line alonl | which the division passed fighting anC
 winning, though sometimes inch by inch
 and ask myself Where are they who, or l tfeir high-stepping steeds, followed close after their well-doing lines looking fol | advantages in the heady fight, and see l
 nam~s in history and 1eHp ca:ven or. thu
 stones il, this gro wing wildernes sof mon uments.
 Charles Whittlesey educated soldier | and scientist. who left his laboratory tC | help save his country; John NJ. Thayer
 a major general and then Governor of hi
 State tNebraska) and United States Sen
 ator: Manning r. Ford, lawyer of sucf | degree that whoever writes the judicia
 history of Ohio must rive him pages il | the book; Alvin r. HoVey, Major Gen
 eral and then Governor of Indiana; Nor
 gan l.. Smith, also Major General
 rough. ready a soldier in the best mean
 ing of the word. only too careless of hi
 life; Charles R. Wood, another educated | soldier who gained his star: M. D. Leg gett, yet another Major General. If yot
 would learn of him. his character ant l the esteem n which le was held, go aSl about nm in t'leveand 0.
 Need of e Scapegoat.
 "1 have now a question to put to you my friends.
 After this battle was fought. and tht details published, it 3ccame of import | ance 10 the gentlemen connected with i
 some of you may remember that 1 wa! | the unfortunate sci 'cted for the purpose
 ''l will not trouble yod with the accusa
 tions against me. My tongue refuses
 necessary. for at last Gen. Grant a l NacCiregnr. dying, was thoughtful anC | put just enough in his memoirs to ex oneratc me tr,'n them. This, however | is what I have to ask you: Conside
 tha men whose names you have jus | heard me pr1nounce-colonels and bri | gade commanders of my division. | Hat
 I been guilty of any military offens,
 while then marching to the assistanc, l of comrades in distress that black Sun | day; had I been laggard in the march | had 1 led them from the musketry ant peals of cannon sounding in our ears al
 the day from dawn to dark. like tn, | monotone of the ocean spending its in