From Fort Henry to CorinthForce, M. F. (Manning Ferguson)
History
From Fort Henry to Corinth
Force, M. F. (Manning Ferguson)
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns
Jackson's brigade, of Withers' division, when it recoiled from its
fatal attack on Hurlbut and the reserve artillery, went to pieces.
Jackson with the battery marched to Shiloh Church and reported to
General Beauregard. He saw nothing more of his brigade till he rejoined
it at Corinth. Chalmers, abandoning his vain assault, was astonished to
find that the army had fallen back, leaving him alone. He fell back to
the field where Prentiss surrendered, and there rested. Of the remaining
brigade, Gladden's, the merest fragment cohered; this little band, or
detachment, bivouacked near the Hamburg road. Trabue's brigade, except
one regiment which had become separated, spent the night in the tents of
McDowell's brigade camp; Breckenridge's other two brigades were between
Shiloh Church and the river.
Of General Polk's command, Clark's division, though partially scattered,
rested, the greater portion of it, between Breckenridge and Shiloh
Church. The other division, Cheatham's, which remained the freshest and
least disordered command in Beauregard's army, moved off the field; and,
accompanied by General Polk and one regiment of Clark's division,
marched back to its camp of Saturday night.
Of Hardee's corps, so much of Cleburne's brigade as remained with him,
slept in Prentiss' camp; Wood's brigade slept in McClernand's camp;
Shaver's brigade was disintegrated and dissipated.
In the National army, what men were left of Prentiss' division were
gathered about the landing and with Hurlbut. The regiments of W.H.L.
Wallace that had escaped capture returned to their division camp.
Hurlbut after dark moved his division out to the front of the reserve
artillery. Being relieved by General Nelson, he formed his line with its
left near the reserve artillery and the right near McClernand.
McClernand's command bivouacked along the eastern face of the
camp-ground of W.H.L. Wallace's division. Sherman's left joined
McClernand; his right, Buckland's brigade, lay along the field at the
south flank of McArthur's brigade camp, and along the east bank of the
ravine of Brier Creek. Stuart's brigade, the Fortieth Illinois of
McDowell's brigade, and the Forty-eighth Ohio of Buckland's brigade
spent the night near the reserve artillery.
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