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General Sherman assigns to himself on his edition, with the deep hollow ofTillman’s Creek intervening.

The struggle which drove General McClernand from his seventh positionis described by that officer as follows:

“ The enemy renewed the contest by trying to shell us from our position. . . . Advancingin heavy columns led by the Louisiana Zouaves to break our center, we awaited his approachwithin sure range, and opened a terrific fire upon him. The head of the column was instantlymowed down ; the remainder of it swayed to and fro for a few seconds, and turned and fled.This second success of the last two engagements terminated a conflict of ten and a half hours’duration, from 6 o’clock A. Jl. to 4:30 o’clock P. M., and probably saved our army, transportsand all, from capture. Strange, however, at the very moment of the flight of the enemy, theright of our line gave way, and immediately after, notwithstanding the indignant and heroicresistance of Colonel Veatch, the left, comprising the [14th Illinois and 25th Indiana ] was irre-sistibly swept back by the tide of fugitive soldiers and trains seeking vain security at the land-ing. . . . Left unsupported and alone, the 20th and 17th Illinois , together with other portions of

my division not borne back by the retreating multitude, retired in good order under the immediate com-mand of Colonel Marsh and Lieutenant-Colonel Wood, and re-formed under my direction, the rightresting near the former line, and the left at an acute angle with it. A more extended line, comprisingportions of regiments, brigades, and divisions, was soon formed on this nucleus by the efforts of GeneralSherman, myself, and other officers. Here, in the eighth position occupied by my division during theday, we rested in line of battle upon our arms, uncovered and exposed to a drenching rain during the night A

This last position would locate McClernand , excepting his First Brigade,perhaps three hundred yards south of, and obliquely with reference to theright-hand road leading from the landing, facing a little to the west. HisFirst Brigade is traced to within half a mile of the river, where it was ralliedby its commander “ in front of the camp-ground of the 14th Iowa,” on theroad to the landing. It did not join the division again until after the battle,but acted in connection with my troops. Colonel Veatch, who was onMcClernand’s left with the 14th Illinois and 25th Indiana in the seventhposition, fell back and took “ position on the road leading to the landing nearthe heavy siege-guns,” and became reunited there with Iiurlbut’s division, towhich he belonged. The space along the road in rear of McClernand wasfilled in with various fragments which constituted Sherman’s command,including at last Buckland’s two regiments. General Sherman says thatColonel Sweeny was with him. No doubt some of Sweeny’s men also werethere. It was the camp-ground of his brigade—the camp of his own regi-ment, the 52d Illinois , being immediately on the road. Two of his regimentswere captured with Prentiss, and the remainder had been driven back fromW. H. L. Wallace’s right and virtually broken up. One of his regiments,the 50th Illinois , was sent in the morning to support Colonel Stuart on theextreme left, and shared the fate of the sufferers in that quarter. The spacealong the road between Sherman and Hurlbut was occupied by the remnantof Colonel Tuttle’s brigade and a portion of McClernand ’s First Brigade whichunited itself to Tuttle. It was Tuttle’s camp-ground. Two of his regimentshad been captured with Prentiss.

From the reports of the 13th Missouri and 43d Illinois it is inferred thatthose two regiments did not move from their position on the River road inthe last falling back. But that, if certain, is not important. They were at