. Young folk's history of the war for the union . wounded. The next mo-ment he reeled and was carried a short dis-tance away into a ravine,wliere he died in a fewminutes. His troops, kept in ignorance of the sad event, stillpressed onward, and Beauregard took the chief command. Though driven to the very brink of the river, Grant had notyet given up all hope. We can hold them off till to-morrow,he said. Then they will be exhausted, and well go at themwith fresh troops. There was a deep ravine between the twoarmies, which the Confederates had yet to cross. Grant hastilythrew up some s
. Young folk's history of the war for the union . wounded. The next mo-ment he reeled and was carried a short dis-tance away into a ravine,wliere he died in a fewminutes. His troops, kept in ignorance of the sad event, stillpressed onward, and Beauregard took the chief command. Though driven to the very brink of the river, Grant had notyet given up all hope. We can hold them off till to-morrow,he said. Then they will be exhausted, and well go at themwith fresh troops. There was a deep ravine between the twoarmies, which the Confederates had yet to cross. Grant hastilythrew up some small earthworks along its brow, and mountedthere some heavy siege-guns, which fortunately had been landedfor use against Corinth, and when the enemy made a final at-ta(;k they were received with a hot fire from these and fromthe cannon of the gunboats Tyler and Lexington, which were. Albert Sydney Johnston. 212 8HIL OH. —MEMPHIS. [1862. then able to give their aid. The Confederates made braveefforts to charge up the slijipery banks, but the Union troopsfought as gaUantly as they did, and the enemy gave up theassault at nightfall. Thus the first days battle ended in a. de-cided advantage for the Confederates, and Beauregard, expect-ing to win easily on the morrow, telegraphed to Richmond thathe had gained a complete victory. He was not far wrong,for he had taken most of the Union artillery, thirty flags, andnearly three thousand prisoners, including General kept his promise, too, of sleeping in the Union camp, forthat night he occupied General Shermans headquarters in Shi-loh Church. But a great change took place during the night. The gun-boats continued to throw shells, and the Confederates were so
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