The world: historical and actual . e relief to the na-tional capital, whichhad been in great apprehension from an assaultby water. The battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Lauding, oc-curred April fi and 7. Grant had over 30,000 men,and Buell was advancing from Nashville to his sup-port. The Confederates were commanded by the brave and bril-liant Gen. decided toattack Grantat PittsburgLanding be-fore he couldbe joined byBuell. Earlyin the morn-ing the fightbegan, and atnightfall had been pushed very nearly into the looked as if (Jrant was about to he completely
The world: historical and actual . e relief to the na-tional capital, whichhad been in great apprehension from an assaultby water. The battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Lauding, oc-curred April fi and 7. Grant had over 30,000 men,and Buell was advancing from Nashville to his sup-port. The Confederates were commanded by the brave and bril-liant Gen. decided toattack Grantat PittsburgLanding be-fore he couldbe joined byBuell. Earlyin the morn-ing the fightbegan, and atnightfall had been pushed very nearly into the looked as if (Jrant was about to he completelyused up. That night Buell arrived. If was anotherinstance of night or Bliicher. There were nocorresponding recruits fur the attacking army, andthe next morning the Confederates were compelledto fall back on Corinth. The losses on both sideswere very heavy. Those on the Federal side wereabout 13,000. Among the Confederates who fell wasGen. A. S. Johnston himself Alexander H. Ste-phens pronounced the loss irreparable, and Jeffer ion. IARLOS Blhl Davis placed the very highest estimate upon thegreatness of the calamity. April 25 New Orleans fell into the hands of theFederals. It was well fortified, and thought to be almost fleet which suc-ceeded in forcing thesurrender consisted ofeight steamships, six-teen gunboats andtwenty - one mortar-vessels. This largeforce had for co-oper-ative support GeneralButler at SouthwestPass with 9,000 Confederate de-fense consisted of sev-eral strong fortifications and seventeen vessels, in-cluding several rams. The forts surrendered, the fewvessels of the defense were destroyed, and the citywas at the mercy of the assailants. General Butleftook possession of the city. His administrationof affairs in New Orleans gave great satisfactionat the Northand aroused stillgreater indigna-tion at the was accusedof robbing thepeople even oftheir spoons, andof playing the jdespot general real secretof Butlers un-popul
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