Life of Wm Tecumseh Sherman .. . ng then of the effect of this gunboat can-nonading, which was vigorously kept up till nearly morn-ing, and it only served to remind us the more vividly ofthe days disasters, of the fact that half a mile off lay avictorious enemy, commanded by the most dashing of theirgenerals, and of the question one scarcely dared ask him-self : What to-morrow ? We were defeated, our deadand dying were around us, days could hardly sum up ourlosses. And then there came up that grand refrain ofWhittiers—written after Manassas, I believe, but on thatnight, apparently far more app
Life of Wm Tecumseh Sherman .. . ng then of the effect of this gunboat can-nonading, which was vigorously kept up till nearly morn-ing, and it only served to remind us the more vividly ofthe days disasters, of the fact that half a mile off lay avictorious enemy, commanded by the most dashing of theirgenerals, and of the question one scarcely dared ask him-self : What to-morrow ? We were defeated, our deadand dying were around us, days could hardly sum up ourlosses. And then there came up that grand refrain ofWhittiers—written after Manassas, I believe, but on thatnight, apparently far more applicable to this greater thanManassas— Under the Cloud and Through the Sea. * Sons of the Saints who faced their Jordan flood, In fierce Atlantics unretreating wave—Who by the Red Rea of their glorious blood Reached to the Freedom that your blood shall save I O, countrymen ! Gods day is not yet done ! He leaveth not his people utterly !Count it a covenant, that he leads us on Beneath the clouds and through the crimson sea ?. SAJOR general butterfield. CHAPTER XIV. AGATES STORY CONCLUDED. The Work of Sunday Night—Landing of Buells Troops—Effect ofthe Bombardment—Lack of System in the Union Army—Renewingthe Battle—A Change of Tactics—Turning the Tide—Critten-dens Advance—The Advance at the Centre—A Grand Parade onthe Field of War—Redeeming the Losses of Sunday—Facing theLouisiana Troops—Silencing the Battery—End of the Gre,.tStruggle. After giving the roll of the Federal troops engaged atShiloh, Agate concludes his remarkable narrative asfollows: With the exception of the gunboat bombardment, thenight seemed to have passed in entire quiet. A heavythunder-storm had come up about midnight, and thoughwe were all shivering over the ducking, the surgeonsassured us that a better thing could not have ground, they said, was covered with wounded not yetfound, or whom we were unable to bring from the moisture would to some extent cool t
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