. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . lly wounded, while endeavorne 1othe Federal army. stom tntJ ~ o{ Generals Polk and Hardees After marching about six miles, Captain John forces upon bis own aud those of Genera! Shcr-A. Hawhus, Grant s adjutant-general, had overtaken man, his place being taken by Oolonal J. M. Tnttle, who had previously head
. The soldier in our Civil War : a pictorial history of the conflict, 1861-1865, illustrating the valor of the soldier as displayed on the battle-field, from sketches drawn by Forbes, Waud, Taylor, Beard, Becker, Lovie, Schell, Crane and numerous other eye-witnesses to the strife . lly wounded, while endeavorne 1othe Federal army. stom tntJ ~ o{ Generals Polk and Hardees After marching about six miles, Captain John forces upon bis own aud those of Genera! Shcr-A. Hawhus, Grant s adjutant-general, had overtaken man, his place being taken by Oolonal J. M. Tnttle, who had previously headed the FirstBrigade. Monday. April 7th, found the con-tending armies established upon new Aunt. lass. littQS• arrangeu> with great difficulty during the dark aud very stormy night that had followed the previous days bnttlo. The incessant firing of the had compelled the Confederatesto abandon fully one-half the groundthey had previously gained, and theywere now stationed a little in ad-vance of the camps originally oc-cupied by Sherman, JleClernand andPrentiss. General Hardee held theright of the line with his own divi-sion, having on the extreme right ofthe latter both Chalmerss and Jack-sons brigades, belonging to Witherasand next to these came Breckinridges. PLAN OF DEFENSE AT THE PEACH ORCHARD- tion across tho wooded ravine that now separated which ho was advancing. Ho had thenthem, and had once nearly succeeded in turning his steps, crossed Snake Creek by the river road,and reached the Landing without loss of time. the Federal right, bat with tho aid of Amnionthrco regiments they were beaten back, retiringaltogether at about nino oclock, when the fireceased. Lewis Wallace, whom Grant had ordered it) (liemorning to come tip from Crumps Landing andform on the right, reached the Landing at night-fall, and was then severely censured for 1> is apparentfailure to carry out orders. He explained, how-ever, that after leaving tw<Crumps Landing, he had pu Tho nig
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