The Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania at Shiloh : History of the regiment ; the battle of Shiloh . a line slightly oblique to ours and beyondopen fields with a battery in front of Nelsons left, a bat-tery in front of Crittendens left, a battery in front of Crit-tendens right and McCooks left and another battery infront of McCooks right. A short distance in rear of theenemys left were the encampments of McClernands andShermans divisions, which the enemy held. While troopswere getting into position, Mendenhalls battery engaged theenemys second battery with some effect. Bartletts bat-tery engaged the
The Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania at Shiloh : History of the regiment ; the battle of Shiloh . a line slightly oblique to ours and beyondopen fields with a battery in front of Nelsons left, a bat-tery in front of Crittendens left, a battery in front of Crit-tendens right and McCooks left and another battery infront of McCooks right. A short distance in rear of theenemys left were the encampments of McClernands andShermans divisions, which the enemy held. While troopswere getting into position, Mendenhalls battery engaged theenemys second battery with some effect. Bartletts bat-tery engaged the enemys third battery.$ The divisions of the Army of the Ohio moved forward pre-serving their relative positions in line and became engagedabout eight A. M. They advanced slowly until about twoP. M., when Woods division arrived just as the final retreatof the Confederates began. In the forward movement Mc-Cooks division kept the main Corinth road, Crittendens di-vision about the direction of the eastern Corinth road. This *109 War Records, 232. til War Records, 95. IGeneral Buells NEAR THE EXTREME RIGHT OF THE UNION LINES H I L O H. The Battle of Shiloh. 309 separated these divisions so that at about eleven A. and Tattle, from the Army of the Tennessee, weremoved into the interval between McCook and Crittenden andbecame engaged in the Review field. Ai four P. M. the Con-federates had retired from the field, and the Army of theOhio bivouacked on a line extending from Stuarts campsthrough Prentiss camps to near Shiloh Church. TerrilFs battery (H), Fifth United States, belonging to Mc-Cooks division, was detached for service with Nelson andwas in action on Hamburg road and at the Peach Orchard. FOURTH DIVISION.(Nelsons.) The head of this division arrived opposite to PittsburgLanding about five P. M., April 6, 1862. One brigade. Am-nions, crossed the river and parts of the Thirty-sixth In-diana and Sixth Ohio were engaged in the closing action ofSunday. At nine P.
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