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William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs of General William T. Sherman ., volume 1, Chapter 9: battle of Shiloh. March and April, 1862. (search)
Major Ricker, and two battalions of infantry from the Fifty-seventh and Seventy-seventh Ohio, under the command of Colonels Ilildebrand and Mungen, I marched to the river, and embarked on the steamers Empress and Tecumseh. The gunboat Cairo did not l the enemy's batteries, including that at Chickasaw, were abandoned. I ordered the battalion of infantry under Colonel Ilildebrand to disembark at Eastport, and with the other battalion proceeded to Chickasaw and landed. The battery at this poiy necessary. Two regiments of Hildebrand's brigade — Appler's and Mungen's — had already disappeared to the rear, and Ilildebrand's own regiment was in disorder. I therefore gave orders for Taylor's battery — still at Shiloh — to fall back as far gade did break much too soon, and I am not yet advised where they were during Sunday afternoon and Monday morning. Colonel Ilildebrand, its commander, was as cool as any man I ever saw, and no one could have made stronger efforts to hold his men to