Identifier: mississippivalle00fisk (find matches)
Title: The Mississippi Valley in the Civil War
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Fiske, John, 1842-1901
Subjects: Mississippi River Valley -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Southwest, Old -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns
Publisher: Boston, New York, Houghton, Mifflin and Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ed it back, dis-ordered and partially crumbled. These eventsleft the remaining Federal force in that part ofthe field, consisting of the remnants of Wallacesand Prentisss divisions, with both wings in theCapture of ^ir. Thus a little before six oclockPrentiss. about six regiments, numbering over 2200 men, were encompassed and captured by theenemy. Prentiss was taken prisoner, and AVal-lace received a mortal wound. This great success for the Confederates was farfrom being an unmixed success, for the sending ofso many captives to the rear entailed further delaywhen every minute was precious. The position atPittsburg Landing was covered by a ravine partlyoverflowed with backwater. On bluffs overlookingthis ravine a battery of twenty pieces was j^lantedjust as three Confederate brigades were advancingto the attack. As the enemy, flushed with victory,came on, these batteries opened upon them, whileat the same time the gunboats Tyler and Lexing-ton took part in the contest and enfiladed the
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SHILOH, APRIL 6, 1862, EVENING Fort Donelson and Shiloh 87 rebel lines with their giant balls. Moreover, Nel-sons division was crossing the river, Failure of the and Ammens brio^ade, its first brio^ade, Confederates* * to take Pitts- arrived upon the scene to support the burg Land-Federal artillery. The Confederates ^^^•were driven back, and presently orders from Beau-regard were passed along their advanced linesdirecting them to desist from further attacks andto retire out of range of the gunboats. By somesouthern writers Beauregard has been severelycensured for these orders; it is maintained that ifhe had ordered one last grand charge, it wouldsurely have routed or destroyed the Union army.This opinion is open to grave doubt. If Beaure-gard could at that moment have put 6000 or 8000fresh reserves into the fight against his weary an-tagonist, he might in all probability have routedhim. But here at nightfall, after more than twelvehours of desperate fighting, his own men were aswear

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