THE CAMPAIGN OF SHILOH.
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(McCook’s) were close at hand. Thus, at the instant when the battle wasopened we had to face at least 23,000 fresh troops, including 3 battalionsof regulars, with at least 48 pieces of artillery. J On the Confederateside there was not a man who had not taken part in the battle of the daybefore. The casualties of that day had not been under 6500 officers andmen, independent of stragglers; consequently not more than 20,000 infan-try could be mustered that morning. The Army of the Ohio in GeneralBuell’s hands had been made exceptionally well-trained soldiers for thatearly period of the war.
The extreme Federal right was occupied by General Lew Wallace ’s division,while the space intervening between it and Rousseau ’s brigade was filledwith from 5000 to 7000 men gathered during the night and in the early morn-ing from General Grant’s broken organizations.
After exchanging some shots with Forrest’s cavalry, Nelson’s division wasconfronted with a composite force embracing Chalmers’s brigade, Moore’sTexas Regiment, with other parts of Withers’s division, also the CrescentRegiment of New Orleans and the 26th Alabama , supported by well-postedbatteries, and so stoutly was Nelson received that his division had to recedesomewhat. Advancing again, however, about 8 o’clock, now reenforced byHazen’s brigade, it was our turn to retire with the loss of a battery. Butrallying and taking the offensive, somewhat reenforced, the Confederates were
1 General Lew Wallace ’s division numbered “5000 men of all arms,” with 12 guns; Nelson’s divi-sion, “ 4541 strong,” officers and men, with 18 guns. The strength of Crittenden’s division may beestimated at 6750, rank and file, and Rousseau ’s brigade of McCook’s division at 2250.— G. T. B.