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Late and interesting News
The following summary is compiled from papers received by the Southern and Western mails last night:
The battle of Shiloh. [Correspondence of the Knoxville Register.] Burnsville, near Corinth, Miss, April 7, 1861 10 o'clock P. M.
Amid the excitement and bustle prevalent here just now, I snatch a moment to give you what I know of the fight at Corinth yesterday, and the day before.
From the most accurate information I have, about 3 o'clock, Saturday eve mad, engaging the entire force of the enemy, but not more than half of ours — there being some twenty-five thousand in active on the field, besides a reserve under Gen. Van Dorn, at Memphis, and the 2d Brigade, under Acting Brig. Gen. White, at Burnsville.
As the day advanced the battle increased in fury, and by 10 o'clock it was raging at every point along the line.
The dead and wounded lay, thick; the reign of Death was supreme.
At every successive charge of our brave boys the enemy's r