part of McClernand's forces, sustained by the fire of two batteries, which played havoc with the enemy, crowded into a narrow ravine. In his new position Sherman had a clear field of 200 yards before him, and was content to keep the enemy at that distance for the rest of the day. His command was now of a decidedly mixed character. Hildebrand was there, but his brigade was not. McDowell had been. wounded, and his regiments were not in line. Buckland's Brigade was there entire. Many other regiments and frac tions, whose officers had maintained an organization, came into the line and fought with Sherman's Division during the rest of the battle.

Buell had arrived on the scene during the day. In the evening he and Grant came to Sherman's bivouac and Grant informed him that Wallace had come up and had formed on his right. He also said that the last assault made by the Confederates in the ravine near the river, had been repelled by Webster's heavy battery, and that he was convinced the battle was over for the day. That night it rained hard, but Sherman's men were in good spirits and ready to redeem on Monday what they had lost on Sunday.

At daylight on Monday morning Sherman received orders from Grant to march out and capture his original camps. He despatched his aides to bring up all of his men they could find and especially the brigade of Stuart, which had become detached from its command the day before. At the appointed time, all that remained of his original division, together with the fragments that had been attached to it, were pushed briskly forward, and occupied the ground from which it had been driven the afternoon before, on McClernand's right. Here they attracted the fire of a battery located on McDowell's former headquarters and were compelled to halt. Grant's orders to advance had been general,

and Sherman felt that all the divisions were in motion. He also knew that Buell's army had been thrown along the line of the Corinth road, and he expected to hear guns announcing his advance with his fresh troops. At 10 A. M. the sound came. It was loud and steady. It indicated victorious advance for it gradually came nearer. This was enough to satisfy Sherman. He knew that Wallace was on his right, with a fresh and well ordered division. He knew that if McClernand had moved at all under Grant's order he would be where he was the day before, and that he (Sherman) had to keep touch with his right. So, leading the head of his column, he formed line of battle, facing South, with Buckland's Brigade directly across the ridge and Stuart's on his right in the woods. He advanced steadily and slowly in the face of a withering fire of musketry and artillery. There was grim determination in the face of every officer and soldier. Nothing short of an earthquake could have disturbed the dogged resolution of his troops at that moment. They seemed to feel that the moment had arrived, when a day's disasters must be redeemed. They found their general everywhere in their midst, imparting his spirit, and sustaining his command with the deliberation of one born to control a crisis.

Taylor, who had been off for ammunition, came rushing in with a broken battery of three guns. These Sherman quickly threw into position with orders to advance by hand firing. Under cover of their fire, he advanced till he reached the crossing of the Corinth road with McClernand's linesHere he met Buell's well ordered forces, sight of which encouraged his own men. He saw one of Buell's regiments enter a thicket behind which the enemy were posted in force beheld one of the fiercest musketry fires he ever witnessed, and saw the regiment emerge in line as true as when it en

tered. This point was only 500 yards east of Shiloh meeting-house. It was evident that the struggle of the day was to centre there, though southward the enemy could be seen forming. These McClernand quickly dispatched with the aid of three guns of Wood's Battery sent him by Sherman. Just then two guns of McAllister's twenty-four pound howetizers arrived and Sherman placed them where they did excellent execution.

It was now 2 P.M. Two batteries of the enemy at Shiloh were showering shot upon the wood from which Buell's Regiment had been driven. But McCook threw his whole brig. ade in that direction. It deployed beautifully and entered the wood. Sherman threw Smith's Brigade (formerly Stuart's) in upon his right, and Buckland's in upon Stuart's right, and ordered all to advance with McCook's right, which proved to be Rousseau's Kentucky Brigade. Sherman meanwhile personally superintended the fire of the two twentyfour pounders, which soon silenced the enemy's guns to the left and finally the batteries at Shiloh meeting-house.

Rousseau's Brigade kept McCook's right to the front with a steady sweep, Sherman's troops keeping even with it, and by 4 P.M. they all came out on Sherman's original line, with the enemy in full retreat. He ordered his men to occupy their original camps, which they did with the gracious feeling of conquerors, after a test such as soldiers are seldom put to. Many times during the sanguinary advance the ammunition gave out, but Grant was in command and sup plies kept constantly coming from the rear. He had overlooked no detail of the conflict, but had anticipated the spot and moment where and when men and material would be needed. Many times Sherman held his men in place with empty cartridge boxes, knowing that a supply would be on hand at the earliest possible moment. And it always came.