. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . nfact, later in the war, while occupying thecountry between the Tennessee and the Mis-sissippi, I learned that the panic in the Con-federate lines had not differed much from thatwithin our own. Some of the country peo-ple estimated the stragglers from Johnstonsarmy as high as 20,000. Of course, this wasan exaggeration. The situation at the close of the lirst day wasas follows : Extending from the topof tlie bluftVol. XXIX.—5S. just south of the log-house which stood atPittsburg Landing, Colonel J. D. Webster, ofmy staff, had arranged twenty
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . nfact, later in the war, while occupying thecountry between the Tennessee and the Mis-sissippi, I learned that the panic in the Con-federate lines had not differed much from thatwithin our own. Some of the country peo-ple estimated the stragglers from Johnstonsarmy as high as 20,000. Of course, this wasan exaggeration. The situation at the close of the lirst day wasas follows : Extending from the topof tlie bluftVol. XXIX.—5S. just south of the log-house which stood atPittsburg Landing, Colonel J. D. Webster, ofmy staff, had arranged twenty or more piecesof artillery facing south, or up the river. Thisline of artillery was on the crest of a hill over-looking a deep ravine opening into the Ten-nessee. Hurlbut, with his division intact, wason the right of this artillery, extending westand possibly a little north. McClernand camenext in the general line, looking more to thewest. His division was complete in its organ-ization and readv for anvdutv. Sherman came 6o2 THE BATTLE OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL JG!!N >.. ,.ivii^,vi:..^i, BY GEO. S. COOK.) next, his right extending to Snake Creek. Hiscommand, Hke the other two, was complete inits organization and ready, hke its chief, forany service it might be cahed upon to three divisions were, as a matter of course,more or less shattered and depleted in num-bers from the terrible battle of the day. Thedivision of W. H. L. Wallace, as much from thedisorder arising from changes of division andbrigade commanders, under heavy fire, as fromany other cause, had lost its organization, anddid not occupy a place in the line as a command was gone as a division,many of its members having been killed,wounded, or captured. But it had renderedvaliant service before its final dispersal, andhad contributed a good share to the defenseof Shiloh. There was, I have said, a deep ravine infront of our left. The Tennessee River wasvery high at that
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