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An English Combatant, Lieutenant of Artillery of the Field Staff., Battlefields of the South from Bull Run to Fredericksburgh; with sketches of Confederate commanders, and gossip of the camps., Chapter 18
Chapter 18:
Fall of Island no.10, April fifth
battle of Shiloh, April sixth
capture of guns
General Albert Sidney Johnston killed
the battle resumed at Daybreak
the enemy are reenforced by Buell
the Confederate army retreats
great loss
false reports of the Federal Generals.
Corinth, Miss., April 10th, 1862.
Dear Tom: In exchange for your last entertaining epistle, I send the following hurried scrawl.
It would seem that the army of the West bids fair to rival that of Virginia.
As you are doubtless aware, we have fought another great battle, in fact, two, which I consider are without parallel on this continent, and approach more closely to European conflicts than any thing which either you or I have participated in as yet. To give a plain statement of things, let me begin at the beginning and go through in proper order.
After the disastrous affair of Fort Donelson, Johnston reformed his army, and remained some short time at Murfreesboro, but subsequen