CHAPTER VIII. SERVICE IN KENTUCKY. Serving Under Anderson--Critical Condition of the State-- Seeking Help in Other States--A Visit to Fremont--That Famous Interview with Cameron--How the Story of Sherman's Insanity was Started--Attacks and Insults--Sherman's Official Correspondence--His Request for 200,000 Men-- An Extraordinary Newspaper Article--Sherman Transferred to Missouri--Halleck's Confidence in Him--Planning the Donelson Campaign 99 CHAPTER IX. SHILOH. The Gloomy Winter of 1861-2--Exultation over Donelson--The Advance up the Tennessee--Responsibility for the Encampment at Pittsburgh Landing--Controversies over the Battle-- Varying Accounts--Sherman's Personal Heroism--Number of Troops Engaged on Both Sides--Services of the Army of the Ohio--Losses of the two Armies 116 CHAPTER X. OFFICIAL REPORTS ON SHILOH. Sherman's Own Story--How his Troops were Posted--The Attack-- Troops in Disorder--Grant and Buell at the Bivouac--The Battle Resumed in the Morning--Death of General Johnston-- Gallant Conduct of Individual Officers--Grant's Official Report--Special Mention of Sherman for his Gallantry as a Soldier and his Skill as a Commander 124 CHAPTER XI. "AGATE'S" STORY OF SHILOH. The Situation Before the Battle--The First Skirmish--Plans of the Rebel Leaders--The Scene on Sunday Morning--Troops in Disorder--Analysis of the Situation--Faulty Disposition of the Federal Troops--Arrangement of Sherman's Division--The Rebel Plan of Attack--Sherman's Old Friend Bragg among the Rebel Leaders 142 CHAPTER XII. "AGATE'S" STORY CONTINUED. The Battle of Sunday, April 6th--The Union Troops Surprised-- An Army in Disorder--Sherman's Heroic Effort to Stem the Tide--McClernand's Share in the Battle--The Rebels Pressing their Advantage--The Assault on Sherman's Left--Men too Brave to be Killed--Desperate Position of the Union Army-- Looking to the Gunboats for Aid--Three Desperate Charges Repulsed--Death of General Wallace 153 CHAPTER XIII. "AGATE'S" STORY CONTINUED. The Close of Sunday's Fight--What had been Lost During the Day--Five Thousand Cowards on the River Bank--Opportune Arrival of General Buell--The Grand Attack and its Grand Repulse--Aid from the Gunboats--The Night Between Two Battles--Desperate Preparations for the Morrow--Gunboats on Guard Through the Darkness 172 CHAPTER XIV. "AGATE'S" STORY CONCLUDED.