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THE BATTLE OF SHILOH.

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WOUNDED AND STRAGGLERS ON THE WAY TO THE LANDING, AND AMMUNITION-WAGONS GOING TO THE FRONT.

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except the claims put forward for it since. But the Confederate claimants forsuperiority in strategy, superiority in generalship, and superiority in dash andprowess are not so unjust to the Union troops engaged at Shiloh as are manyNorthern writers. The troops on both sides were American, and united theyneed not fear any foreign foe. It is possible that the Southern man startedin with a little more dash than his Northern brother; but he was correspond-ingly less enduring.

The endeavor of the enemy on the first day was simply to hurl their menagainst ours—first at one point, then at another, sometimes at several pointsat once. This they did with daring and energy, until at night the rebel troopswere worn out. Our effort during the same time was to be prepared to resistassaults wherever made. The object of the Confederates on the second daywas to get away with as much of their army and material as possible. Oursthen was to drive them from our front, and to capture or destroy as great apart as possible of their men and material. We were successful in drivingthem back, but not so successful in captures as if further pursuit could havebeen made. As it was, we captured or recaptured on the second day aboutas much artillery as we lost on the first; and, leaving out the one great cap-ture of Prentiss, we took more prisoners on Monday than the enemy gainedfrom us on Sunday. On the 6th Sherman lost 7 pieces of artillery, McCler-