. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . U^f^v/f STRAOTiLERS OX TIIK WAV TO TIIK ;, AND AMMITNITION WAGONS GOINfJ TO THK FRONT. THE BATTLE OE SHILOH. 607. CHECKING THE CONFEDERATE ADVANCE ON THE EVENING OF THE FIRST DAY. [Above this ravine, near the Landing, the Federal reserve artillery was posted, and it was on this line the Confederate advance was sunset, Sunday evening. The Confederates then fell back, and bivouacked in the Federal camps.—See page 601.] by jNIcClernand. The heaviest loss sustainedby the enemy was in front of these two divis-ions. The criti
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . U^f^v/f STRAOTiLERS OX TIIK WAV TO TIIK ;, AND AMMITNITION WAGONS GOINfJ TO THK FRONT. THE BATTLE OE SHILOH. 607. CHECKING THE CONFEDERATE ADVANCE ON THE EVENING OF THE FIRST DAY. [Above this ravine, near the Landing, the Federal reserve artillery was posted, and it was on this line the Confederate advance was sunset, Sunday evening. The Confederates then fell back, and bivouacked in the Federal camps.—See page 601.] by jNIcClernand. The heaviest loss sustainedby the enemy was in front of these two divis-ions. The criticism has often been made that theUnion troops should have been intrenchedat Shiloh. But up to that time the pick andspade had been but little resorted to at theWest. I had, however, taken this subject un-der consideration soon after reassuming com-mand in thefield. McPherson, my only militaryengineer, had been directed to lay out a lineto intrench. He did so, but reported that itwould have to be made in rear of the line ofencampment as it then ran. The new line,while it would be nearer the river, was yettoo far away from the Tennessee, or evenfrom the creeks, to be
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