The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union . astonished with the rest, butnot yet directly assailed. Movingup, at T A. M., to the support of Sher-man, it found his division mostlygone or going ; its best officers killedor wounded, its batteries either cap-tured or badly cut up. Bucklandsbrigade, which had gone after Hi
The American conflict : a history of the great rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'64 : it's causes, incidents, and results, intended to exhibit especially its moral and political phases, with the drift and progress of American opinion respecting human slavery, from 1776 to the close of the War for the Union . astonished with the rest, butnot yet directly assailed. Movingup, at T A. M., to the support of Sher-man, it found his division mostlygone or going ; its best officers killedor wounded, its batteries either cap-tured or badly cut up. Bucklandsbrigade, which had gone after Hilde-brands, forming our extreme righton the front, had fallen back to avoidcertain destruction. To all practicalintents, and in spite of its leadersdesperate and untiring exertions,Shermans division was out of thefight by 8 oclock that ominous morn-ing. It seemed a miracle that theircommander, always in the hottest ofthe Rebel fire, escaped with a singlemusket-ball through his hand. Prentiss formed his division asquickly as possible, and not far inthe rear of their camps, where hismen faced to the front and foughtstubbornly for a time ; but they hadbeen strangely drawn up in an openfield, leaving to the enemy the coverof a dense scrub-oak thicket in our April 4. On Sunday, April 6. 62 THE AMERICAN CONFLICT. -^^. \. PITTSBtrEG LANDING, ExplanatioTis. A Positions of Grants forces on the morningof April 6th. B Positions of Grant, with the divisions of Nelson andCrittenden, on the evening of April 6th. O Positions of Grant and Buell on the morning of April Positions of Grant and Buell on the evening of April Eeserve Artillery. front, whence thej could pour volleyafter volley in comparative , our men were flanked on eitherside, and fell back, perceiving thatthey were squandering their lives tono purjjose. Thus the division lostall coherence and efficiency ; its lead-er became separated from a large portion of his command; and by 10oclock it had bee
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