The Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania at Shiloh : History of the regiment ; the battle of Shiloh . l a complete lineof defense had been built for protection against the attacksof the morrow. But this art of war had not yet been learned, neither armyknew the possibility of building entrenchments until they hadbeen regularly laid out by engineers and the plans approvedat headquarters. We find at Shiloh that with three exceptions no breastworkswere prepared by either side on Sunday night. Of these ex-ceptions a Union battery near the landing was protected bya few sacks of corn piled up in front of the
The Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania at Shiloh : History of the regiment ; the battle of Shiloh . l a complete lineof defense had been built for protection against the attacksof the morrow. But this art of war had not yet been learned, neither armyknew the possibility of building entrenchments until they hadbeen regularly laid out by engineers and the plans approvedat headquarters. We find at Shiloh that with three exceptions no breastworkswere prepared by either side on Sunday night. Of these ex-ceptions a Union battery near the landing was protected bya few sacks of corn piled up in front of the guns; some Con-federate regiment arranged the fallen timber in front ofMarshs brigade camp into a sort of defensive work thatserved a good purpose the next day; and Lieutenant Nispel,Company E, Second Illinois Light Artillery, dug a trench infront of his gnus, making a slight earthwork, which may vetbe seen, just at the right of the position occupied by the siegeguns. He alone of all the officers on the field thought to usethe spade, which was so soon Jo become an important weaponof The Battle of Skiloh. 277 During Sunday night the remainder of General Nelsonsdivision and General Crittendens division of the Army of theOhio arrived upon the field, and early .Monday morning theUnion forces were put in motion to renew the battle. GeneralCrittendens right rested on the Corinth road, General Nel-son, to his left, extending the line across Hamburg 1,000 men* from the Army of the Tennessee, extendedthe line to the overflowed land of the Tennessee. Two bri-gades of General McCooks arriving on the field about sixocloekf formed on Crittendens right, Rousseaus brigade infront line and Kirks in reserve. At McCooks right wasHurlbut, then McClernand, then Sherman, then Lew. Wallace,whose right rested on the swamps of Owl creek. The Armyof the Ohio formed with one regiment of each brigade in re-serve, and with Boyles brigade of Crittendens division as re-serve for the whole.
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