The Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania at Shiloh : History of the regiment ; the battle of Shiloh . hill. Consequentlythe recoil would send their guns back below the crest, wherethey could be reloaded in comparative safety. Kirk, in orderto dislodge the enemy, ordered the Seventy-seventh Penn-sylvania and the Twenty-ninth Indiana to move to the leftand front, with a view to charging the battery from the flank. The Confederates soon discovered the nature of this move,and hurriedly retired upon their reserves. In a few minutesthe Federal forces were on the ground the enemy had of blood sta
The Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania at Shiloh : History of the regiment ; the battle of Shiloh . hill. Consequentlythe recoil would send their guns back below the crest, wherethey could be reloaded in comparative safety. Kirk, in orderto dislodge the enemy, ordered the Seventy-seventh Penn-sylvania and the Twenty-ninth Indiana to move to the leftand front, with a view to charging the battery from the flank. The Confederates soon discovered the nature of this move,and hurriedly retired upon their reserves. In a few minutesthe Federal forces were on the ground the enemy had of blood stains wTere found there, but the killed orwounded had all been carried off by their comrades. Theenemy were driven about one mile farther. Then the bri-gade was ordered to return to camp. It did so in good order,having sustained a loss of twelve wounded. The commandreached camp about four P. M., bringing with it three pris-oners, who said that they had been under the command ofGeneral Joe Wheeler. They, however, either could not orwould not tell the extent of their loss, except that Wheeler. PRINT: JULIUS Bl EN S CO. NEW YORK CO Advance on Murfreesborough. 1UI was wounded in the thigh. Several store and other houses,from which shots had been fired at the brigade, were burned. On November twenty-ninth, Colonel Kirk was commis-sioned Brigadier General. About this time Colonel P. was compelled by ill-health to retire from militaryservice. He was honorably discharged on December 7, to orders from the Commanding General, GeneralR. W. Johnson took command of the Second Division on De-cember tenth. Another reorganization of the army followed on the nine-teenth, by virtue *of these orders: I. The numeration of divisions and brigades, now runningthrough the whole army is hereby changed. Divisions willhereafter be known as the first, second and third, etc., of thecenter or of such wing. Brigades, as the first, second andthird, etc., of such division.
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