The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1912-04-05


finding himself alone and hopelessly
beset, surrendered his whole command.
A Gloomy Sunday Night.
Sunday night was a night of gloom
on the battlefield. In the death Of
Johnston the Confederates had lost a
chieftain who had justified the con-
fidence Of his troops by leading them
TO victory. Grants army, driven from
its camps, lay in the open in n pitiless
rain around the landing on Tennessee
river, which had barely been saved
from capture by the Confederates.
The soldiers of the enemy slept in the
tents of Grants captured camps. Cen
eral Beauregard, the Confederate lead
er who took command after Johnston's
fall, rested in the tent formerly occu-
pied 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 Sun
day lay 10000 or 10000 dead or wound.
ed men in blue and gray. Over 1000
Federal prisoners from the divisions
Of Prentiss and w. II. L. Wallace were
under guard near the headquarters
Of Beauregard, at Shiloh church. Prem
tiss met some of his old acquaintances
among his captors. During the night
Of gloom he kept his poise and said to
the exulting Confederates, "You, gen.
tlemen, have had your way today, but
Buell. will effect junction with Grant
tonight, and Wen turn the tables on
you in the morning"
"There Is Buellp
Early on Monday morning the rattle
of musketry and the boom of guns off
toward the Landing signaled renewal
of the battle, and Prentiss exclaimed:
"Ah! Didn't tell you so? There is
BUELL." Throughout the night Of Sun
day steamers of all descriptions had
been at work ferrying the divisions
Of BuelPs Army Of the Ohio across the
Tennessee river to Te-enforce Grant.
The divisions of General A. Med. Nc
Cook and General L. L. Crittenden all
crossed during the night and marched
to the front, where the most active
Confederates had been seen when
night closed in on the 9th. This was
the ground along the river above the
the left wing Of the Federal
army as it went into battle on the 7th,
Shilohs second day.
That part of the field, the scene Of
Buelrs advance on the morning Of
April Z, was traversed by Il road lead
ing from the landing to Shiloh church
and beyond to Corinth. Corinth, Miss,
miles from Pittsburg
Landing, was the point aimed at by
Grant when he could get his army, |
with Buelrs re-enfoFcements, in hand. |
From COrinth the Confederates had |
stealthily northward to over
whelm Grant before the arrival Of |
Buell.. They succeeded in the battle of |
Sunday in driving him from his camps !
llong the Corinth roads back to the !
liver bluffs around the landing.
Grants own army formed the right
wing of the united force as it faced the
,nemy for battle on Monday. The di-
7ision of Lew Wallace, which had not
)een in the battle Of Sunday, held the
extreme right, on the left Of Wallace
he remains Of Sherman's division, then
and Hurlburt's, with
ome regiments Of the divisions of W.
]. L. Wallace, Hurlburt and Prentiss
distributed in the line. Lew Wallace
,pened the battle of Monday on the
light and Nelson's division of Buells
rmy on the left.
Grand Countercharge,
Sherman received orders from Grant
II daylight on the 7th to advance and
his ground Of the day before
round Shiloh church. He waited Un-
IL 10 o'clock, when the sound Of the
,uns on the left, where Buell. was ad-
'ancing, told him that the Army Of the
Jhio was driving the Confederates
,ack along the road to Shiloh church.
'herman's advance was slow for there