. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. BY ULYSSES S. GRANT, GENERAL, U. S. ON THE SKIRMISH THE battle of Sliiloli, or Pittsburg Landing,■ fought on Sunday and Monday, the 6th and7th of April, 1862, has been perhaps lessunderstood, or, to state the ease more accu-rately, more persistently misunderstood,than any other engagement between Na-tional and Confederate troops during theentire rebellion. Correct reports of thebattle have been published, notably bySherman, Badeau, and, in a speech be-^ f
. Battles and leaders of the Civil War : being for the most part contributions by Union and Confederate officers . THE BATTLE OF SHILOH. BY ULYSSES S. GRANT, GENERAL, U. S. ON THE SKIRMISH THE battle of Sliiloli, or Pittsburg Landing,■ fought on Sunday and Monday, the 6th and7th of April, 1862, has been perhaps lessunderstood, or, to state the ease more accu-rately, more persistently misunderstood,than any other engagement between Na-tional and Confederate troops during theentire rebellion. Correct reports of thebattle have been published, notably bySherman, Badeau, and, in a speech be-^ fore a meeting of veterans, liy (reneralPrentiss; but all of these appeared long subsequent tothe close of the rebellion, and after public opinion hadbeen most erroneously formed. Events had occurred before the battle, and others sub-sequent to it, which determined me to make no reportto my then chief, G-eneral Halleck, fm-ther than was contained in a letter,written immediately after the battle, informing him that an engagementhad been fought, and announcing the result. The occrirrences alluded toare these: After the captui*e of Fort Donelson, with over fifteen thousan
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