. The battles of the war for the union. The story of the great Civil War, from the election of Abraham Lincoln to the surrender at Appomatox, Impartially told . d bya few naval actions which succeeded in keeping the be-sieged in continual alarm. On the night of April 6,four steamers and a large number of transports werebrought through the canal, of the very existence ofwhich, beneath the shadow of its luxuriant trees, theSoutherners were ignorant. A division, commanded byGeneral Payne, was sent across the river in the trans-ports, and the men, landing without opposition on theleft bank of the
. The battles of the war for the union. The story of the great Civil War, from the election of Abraham Lincoln to the surrender at Appomatox, Impartially told . d bya few naval actions which succeeded in keeping the be-sieged in continual alarm. On the night of April 6,four steamers and a large number of transports werebrought through the canal, of the very existence ofwhich, beneath the shadow of its luxuriant trees, theSoutherners were ignorant. A division, commanded byGeneral Payne, was sent across the river in the trans-ports, and the men, landing without opposition on theleft bank of the Mississippi, drove back the defendersof the batteries, who seem to have been completelytaken by surprise. The defences on Island No. 10 wereat once abandoned, and the position was surrendered SHILOH. 63 to Commodore Foote, together with a large amount ofwarlike material. Extraordinary want of spirit andresolution was shown by the Confederates throughoutthe whole proceedings. It was important to their po-sition in the West that they should retain New Madrid,the island, and the batteries on the Kentucky shore;but these were abandoned almost without a BUILDING A CANAL. Shiloh (April 6, 7, 1862).—After the capture of Nash-ville, Grant proceeded with his forces down the Ten-nessee River to Pittsburg Landing. Buell prepared tomarch on foot to the same locality; and the Unionarmy, being thus divided, was exposed to the attacksof its enemy. The Confederates could now reckon onthe services of two armies, both numerically strong, 64 THE BATTLES FOR THE UNION. and commanded by officers of ability. At the head ofone was Albert Sidney Johnston ; Beauregard was atthe head of the other. To strike a concentrated blowat Grant, Johnston united his whole force with that ofBeauregard on April I, and on the 3d the army beganits march towards Pittsburg Landing. Altogether, thecommanders had under their control rather more than40,000 men, divided into three corps and a reserve; butthe regime
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