SECOND BATTLE OF SHILOH.

latter were included the fragments of regiments that remained of the shattered divisions of Generals W. H. L. Wallace and Prentiss.

At seven o'clock on the morning of Apr. Monday, General Lewis Wallace 7. opened fire with his artillery upon the enemy's position on the left, which

tucky, commanding; First Kentucky, Colonel Enyart; Second Kentucky, Colonel Sedgwick; Twentieth Ken

tucky, Lieutenant-Colonel

commanding

Third Brigade-Colonel Hazen, Forty-first Ohio, com

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was responded to from guns they had planted within the cover of some scruboak woods, after falling back during the night from a commanding bluff to which they had previously advanced. This "artillery duel" continued until General Wallace moved forward his infantry across a narrow ravine, as if to storm the enemy's position, when, enfiladed by the artillery and threatened. in front, they limbered up their cannon

manding; Forty-first Ohio, Sixth Kentucky, and Ninth and fell back. The enemy's right hav

Indiana.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL TOM CRITTENDEN'S DIVISION.
First Brigade-General Boyle; Nineteenth Ohio, Colonel
Beatty; Fifty-ninth Ohio, Colonel Pfyffe; Thirteenth Ken-
tucky, Colonel Hobson; Ninth Kentucky, Colonel Grider.

ing been forced back by the gun-boats, was not reached so easily by our left under General Nelson. Nelson moved Second Brigade-Colonel Wm. S. Smith, Thirteenth his division, however, about the same Ohio, commanding; Thirteenth Ohio, Lieutenant-Col- time that General Wallace opened fire, onel Hawkins; Twenty-sixth Kentucky, Lieutenant-Col-forming in line of battle with Hazen's kins; with Mendenhall's regular and Bartlett's Ohio brigade on his right, Bruce's in the

onel Maxwell; Eleventh Kentucky, Colonel P. P. Haw

batteries.

BRIGADIER-GENERAL MCCOOK'S DIVISION.

First Brigade-Brigadier-General Lovell H. Rousseau; First Ohio, Colonel Ed. A. Parrott; Sixth Indiana, Colonel Crittenden; Third Kentucky (Louisville Legion); battalions Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Nineteenth regulars.

Second Brigade-Brigadier-General Johnston; Thirtysecond Indiana, Colonel Willich; Thirty-ninth Indiana, Colonel Harrison; Forty-ninth Ohio, Colonel Gibson.

Third Brigade-Colonel Kirk, Thirty-fourth Illinois,

commanding; Thirty-fourth Illinois, Lieutenant-Colonel
Badsworth; Twenty-ninth Indiana, Lieutenant-Colonel
Drum; Thirtieth Indiana, Colonel Bass; Seventy-seventh
Pennsylvania, Colonel Stambaugh.

MAJOR-GENERAL LEWIS WALLACE'S DIVISION-RIGHT OF ARMY.
First Brigade-Colonel Morgan L. Smith, commanding;

centre, and Ammon's on the left. As he
advanced, the enemy, making but little
resistance, retired until they reached the
cover of the woods, at about half-past
ten o'clock, when they made a firm
stand and turned
stand and turned upon their pursuers
with fierce impetuosity.

"Our forces," wrote a chronicler,* "flushed with their easy victory, were scarcely prepared for the sudden onset where retreat had been all they had

Eighth Missouri, Colonel Morgan L. Smith, Lieutenant- been seeing before. Suddenly the rebel

Colonel James Peckham, commanding; Eleventh Indiana,
Colonel George F. McGinnis ; Twenty-fourth Indiana,
Colonel Alvin P. Hovey; Thurber's Missouri battery.
Second Brigade-Colonel Thayer (First Nebraska) com-

manding; First Nebraska, Lieutenant-Colonel McCord,

commanding; Twenty-third Indiana, Colonel Sanderson; Fifty-eighth Ohio, Colonel Bausenwein; Sixty-eighth

Ohio, Colonel Steadman; Thompson's Indiana battery.

Third Brigade-Colonel Chas. Whittlesey (Twentieth

Ohio) commanding; Twentieth Ohio, Lieutenant Colonel commanding; Fifty-sixth Ohio, Colonel Pete Kinney; Seventy-sixth Ohio, Colonel Charles R. Woods; Seventy-eighth Ohio, Colonel Leggett.

masses were hurled against our lines.
with tremendous force. Our men halted,
wavered, and fell back.
wavered, and fell back. At this critical
juncture Captain Terry's regular bat-
tery came dashing up. Scarcely taking
time to unlimber, he was loading and
sighting his pieces before the caissons
had turned, and in an instant was tossing

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