Life of Wm Tecumseh Sherman .. . eneral had donethat which was good in his own eyes, and carried on thebattle independent of the rest; but this brigade was evenleft by its Division General, who was four miles away,doing his best to rally his panic-stricken regiments there. It was Commanded by Colonel David Stuart, (of lateChicago divorce-case fame, and ex-Congressman,) and wascomposed of the Fity-fifth Illinois, Lieutenant-ColonelMalmbourg, commanding; Seventy-first Ohio, ColonelRodney Mason; the Fifty-fourth Ohio, (Zouaves,) ColonelT. K. Smith. It was posted along the circuitous roadfrom Pitt
Life of Wm Tecumseh Sherman .. . eneral had donethat which was good in his own eyes, and carried on thebattle independent of the rest; but this brigade was evenleft by its Division General, who was four miles away,doing his best to rally his panic-stricken regiments there. It was Commanded by Colonel David Stuart, (of lateChicago divorce-case fame, and ex-Congressman,) and wascomposed of the Fity-fifth Illinois, Lieutenant-ColonelMalmbourg, commanding; Seventy-first Ohio, ColonelRodney Mason; the Fifty-fourth Ohio, (Zouaves,) ColonelT. K. Smith. It was posted along the circuitous roadfrom Pittsburgh Landing, up the river to Hamburgh, sometwo miles from the Landing, and near the crossing of LickCreek, the bluffs on the opposite side of which commandedthe position, and stretching on down to join PrentisssDivision on its right. In selecting the grounds for theencampment of our army, it seems to have been forgottenthat from Corinth an excellent road led direct to Ham-burgh, a few miles above this left wing of our LIEUTENANT GENERAL SHERIDAN. STUARTS BRIGADE. l6$ Within a few days, the oversight had indeed been dis-covered, and the determination had been expressed to landBuells forces at Hamburgh, when they arrived, and thusmake all safe. It was unfortunate, of course, that Beaure-gard and Johnston did not wait for us to perfect our pleas-ing arrangements. When the Rebels marched out from Corinth, a coupleof brigades (rumored to be under the command of Breckin-ridge) had taken this road, and thus easily, and withoutmolestation reached the bluffs of Lick Creek, commandingStuarts position. During the attack on Prentiss, Stuarts Brigade wasformed along the road, the left resting near the Lick CreekFord, the right, Seventy-first Ohio, Colonel Rodney Mason,(late Assistant Adjutant-General of Ohio, and Colonelof the Second Ohio at Manassas,) being nearest first intimation they had of disaster to their right wasthe partial cessation of firing. An instant a
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