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PITTSBURG LANDING. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN A FEW DAYS AFTER THE BATTLE.

Of the six transports, the one farthest up stream, on the right, is the Tycoon, which was dispatched by theCincinnati Branch of the Sanitary Commission with stores for the wounded. The next steameris the Tigress , which was General Grant’s headquarters boat during the Shiloh cam-paign. O11 the opposite side of the river is seen the gun-boat Tyler.

concerned the army which I commanded, and I am now called upon in thesame cause to review the circumstances of my connection with the battle, andinvestigate its condition when it was taken up by the Army of the Ohio.

When by the separate or concurrent operations of the forces of the Depart-ment of the Missouri, commanded by General Halleck, and of the Departmentof the Ohio, commanded by myself, the Confederate line had been broken, firstat Mill Springs by General Thomas, and afterward at Fort Henry and at FortDonelson by General Grant and the navy, and Nashville and Middle Tennesseewere occupied by the Army of the Ohio, the shattered forces of the enemyfell back for the formation of a new line, and the Union armies prepared tofollow for a fresh attack. It was apparent in advance that the Memphis andCharleston railroad between Memphis and Chattanooga would constitute thenew line, and Corinth, the point of intersection of the Memphis and Charles-ton road running east and west, and the Mobile and Ohio road running northand south, soon developed as the main point of concentration.

While this new defense of the enemy and the means of assailing it by theUnion forces were maturing, General Halleck’s troops, for the moment under