. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . orm withoutshelter. I made my headquarters under a treea few hundred yards back from the river ankle was so much swollen from the fall of THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. 603 my horse the Friday night preceding, and thebruise was so painful, that I could get no drenching rain would ha\eprecluded thepossibility of sleep, without this additionalcause. Some time after midnight, growingrestive under the storm and the contin-uous pain, I moved back to the log-houseon the bank. This had been taken as a hos-pital, and all night wounded men we
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . orm withoutshelter. I made my headquarters under a treea few hundred yards back from the river ankle was so much swollen from the fall of THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. 603 my horse the Friday night preceding, and thebruise was so painful, that I could get no drenching rain would ha\eprecluded thepossibility of sleep, without this additionalcause. Some time after midnight, growingrestive under the storm and the contin-uous pain, I moved back to the log-houseon the bank. This had been taken as a hos-pital, and all night wounded men were be-ing brought in, their wounds dressed, a leg upon them by the gun-boats every fifteenminutes during the night. The position of the Federal troops on themorning of the 7th was as follows: GeneralLew Wallace on the right, Sherman to hisleft; then McClernand, and then , of Buells army, was on our extremeleft, next to the river; Crittenden was nextin line after Nelson, and on his right; McCookfollowed, and formed the extreme right of. FORD WHERE THE HAMBURGH ROAD CROSSES LICK CREEK, LOOKING FROM COLONEL STUARTS POSITION ON THE FEDERAL LEFT. [Lick Creek at this point was fordable on the first day of the battle, but the rains on Sunday night rendered it impassable on the second day.] or an arm amputated, as the case mightrequire, and everything being done to savelife or alleviate suffering. The sight wasmore unendurable than encountering therebel fire, and I returned to my tree in therain. The advance on the morning of the 7thdeveloped the enemy in the camps occupiedby our troops before the battle began, morethan a mile back from the most advancedposition of the Confederates on the day is known now that the enemy had not yetbecome informed of the arrival of Buells com-mand. Possibly they fell back to get the shel-ter of our tents during the rain, and also toget away from the shells that were dropped Buells command. My old command thusformed the right wing
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