. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . withoutexperience or even drill as soldiers. The offi-cers with them, except the division command-ers, and possibly two or three of the brigadecommanders, were equally inexperienced inwar. The result was a Union victory that gavethe men who achieved it great confidence inthemselves ever after. The enemy fought bravely, but they hadstarted ovit to defeat and destroy an armyand capture a position. They failed in both,A\ith very heavy loss in killed and wounded,and must have gone back discouraged andconvinced that the Yankee was not anenemy to
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . withoutexperience or even drill as soldiers. The offi-cers with them, except the division command-ers, and possibly two or three of the brigadecommanders, were equally inexperienced inwar. The result was a Union victory that gavethe men who achieved it great confidence inthemselves ever after. The enemy fought bravely, but they hadstarted ovit to defeat and destroy an armyand capture a position. They failed in both,A\ith very heavy loss in killed and wounded,and must have gone back discouraged andconvinced that the Yankee was not anenemy to be despised. After the battle I gave verbal instructionsto division commanders to let the regimentssend out parties to bury their own dead, andto detail parties, under commissioned officersfrom each division, to bury the Confederatedead in their respective fronts, and to reportthe numbers so buried. The latter part ofthese instructions was not carried out by all;but they were by those sent from Shermansdivision, and by some of the parties sent out. U^f^v/f STRAOTiLERS OX TIIK WAV TO TIIK ;, AND AMMITNITION WAGONS GOINfJ TO THK FRONT. THE BATTLE OE SHILOH. 607
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