place of Prentiss's surrender, and then conducted the entire command to the east along the ridge south of Dill Branch to near the river, where it was under fire from gunboats and batteries. At dark Breckinridge withdrew to encampments of the enemy.

On Monday he was engaged with his three brigades nearly intact on south side of Corinth road behind Duncan Field, his right joining Hardee about the Peach Orchard. When the army retired Breckinridge formed the rear guard.

Morgan's squadron of Kentucky cavalry and Phil. Thompson's company (Kentucky cavalry) were attached to this corps, but do not appear to have been engaged.

First Brigade.

(Trabue's.)

This brigade formed the advance of the reserve corps and reached the forks of the Bark and Pittsburg roads about 8 a. m. Sunday morning, April 6, 1862. It was sent forward on Pittsburg road to support General Polk's line and soon after deployed to the left of the road in the following order from left to right: Fourth Kentucky, Sixth Kentucky, Thirty-first Alabama, Fifth Kentucky, Fourth Alabama, Crew's Tennessee battalion, Third Kentucky, with Cobb's (Kentucky) battery and Byrne's (Mississippi) battery in the rear.

It passed Shiloh Church in line of battle about 11.30 a. m.-the Fifth Kentucky opening to right and left to pass the Church (Lofland's statement). It advanced due north from the Church to the "verge of a large crescent-shaped field." Here the Third Kentucky, Fourth Alabama, and Crew's battalion and Byrne's battery were detached by General Beauregard and ordered to support General Anderson on the right. The Third and Fourth Kentucky remained detached all day; there is no record of place where they were engaged. Cobb's battery was put in position in front of the Fifth Kentucky in the avenue in front of Marsh's brigade camp. Colonel Trabue sheltered his command in a slight ravine, on the verge of the field, and rode forward to make observations. He discovered two camps to his left and front (Hare's and Marsh's), the enemy still occupying the camps. He moved his command by the left flank into this field and confronted the enemy. Here he was joined on the left by parts of Russell's and Cleburne's brigades-Twenty-second Tennessee, part of Eleventh Louisiana, Fifth Tennessee (Venable), and Fifth Tennessee (Hill)-and on his right by part of Anderson's brigade. The Union troops mentioned by Trabue in his front were the Forty-sixth Ohio, Sixth Iowa, and Thirteenth Missouri. After an engagement of one hour and a quarter, commencing about noon, Trabue ordered a charge and drove the enemy through their camp (Marsh's) and into the woods in the rear, where he encountered and dispersed a Missouri regiment and soon after reached the field where Prentiss surrendered, where his left joined the troops from the right, and Crew's battalion was detached with prisoners. In the meantime Cobb's battery, occupying its first position in Marsh's camp, had been taken and retaken. It had lost all of its horses and was abandoned. Four of its guns were removed with mules Sunday night, but the battery was not again in action. Byrne's battery was engaged in Ruggles's artillery line.

After the surrender of Prentiss, Trabue, with the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Kentucky and Thirty-first Alabama joined Breckinridge and moved down the ridge south of Dill Branch and occupied a position on the crest of the hill, at mounds, overlooking the Tennessee River, where he came under fire from gunboats, which he endured until nearly dark, when he withdrew to the crossroads, where he was joined by the Third Kentucky, Fourth Alabama, and Byrne's battery, and then retired to the camps of the Sixth Iowa and Forty-sixth Ohio, where he passed Sunday night. Trabue says he rode until 11 o'clock, trying to find a general officer to whom he could report for orders, and then sent an aid with escort, who rode all night without success.

On Monday morning the brigade formed on the Purdy Road, Byrne's battery at Owl Creek Bridge. In a short time the brigade was moved by the flank to a point three-fourths of a mile east of Shiloh Church, and formed in line on the left and perpendicular to the road, Byrne's battery on the road at edge of a field (Duncan's), with Anderson" on the left and Bowen's brigade on the right. This position was held four hours and then the brigade, except the Fourth Kentucky and Fourth Alabama, moved to the right of the Duncan House and was then engaged for one hour more, when it fell back to the right of Shiloh Church. The Fourth Kentucky and Fourth Alabama were engaged in severe conflict north of Duncan Field, where they lost very heavily. Major Monroe, Fourth Kentucky, was killed here. At Shiloh Church the contest was continued two hours, when the brigade fell back to the forks of Bark and Pittsburg roads, where it remained as a rear guard Monday night, and on Tuesday retired to Mickey's, where it remained three days.

Second Brigade.

(Bowen's.)

From its bivouac Saturday night on the road toward Mickey's this brigade marched by the Bark and Eastern Corinth roads Sunday morning to a position between the Peach Orchard and Locust Grove Creek, where it formed in battle line at 12 o'clock under the personal direction of General Johnston in the following order from left to right: Ninth Arkansas, Tenth Arkansas, Second Confederate, First Missouri, with Hudson's (Mississippi) and Watson's (Louisiana) batteries in the rear, its left 800 yards to rear and en échelon to Jackson's brigade. From this position it moved forward at 12.30 p. m. and became engaged, in conjunction with Jackson, in an attack upon McArthur's brigade just east of the Peach Orchard. The attack was successful; the Union line was driven back and pursued to the northeast corner of the Peach Orchard. General Johnston, following close to the rear of this brigade, was killed at 2.30 p. m.

Bowen was next engaged at Wicker Field with troops at the camp of the Twenty-eighth Illinois for two hours, when he was wounded and his brigade fell back to Seventy-first Ohio camp, where Colonel Martin took command and moved forward in time to join Breckinridge in his movement toward the river after the surrender of Prentiss. Martin says he halted within 300 or 400 yards of the river when the 10 War Records, 404.

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batteries near Pittsburg and the gunboats opened on him, and being nearly night he fell back "to the first encampment the farthest from the river" and stayed all night. On Monday he was engaged under Breckinridge and fell back with him to the Bark road, where he bivouacked Monday as rear guard.

No mention in the reports of either Hudson's or Watson's batteries.

Third Brigade.

(Statham's.)

This brigade formed the rear of the army and consisted of the Fifteenth and Twenty-second Mississippi, the Nineteenth, Twentieth, Twenty-eighth, and Forty-fifth Tennessee, and Rutledge's Tennessee battery.

It followed Bowen's brigade, and at noon was put in line south of Peach Orchard en échelon to and 800 yards in rear of Bowen. It moved forward into the Orchard, and at about 2.20 p. m. was put in position by Governor Harris and ordered to attack the Union forces at Bloody Pond. It moved to this attack in conjunction with Colonel Maney. After the surrender it joined Breckinridge in his movement east on the ridge. It is not known where it bivouacked Sunday night. On Monday it was doubtless engaged with Breckinridge, but there are no reports of brigades or regiments.

Rutledge's battery was first in action on a hill in the rear of the brigade, then reported to General Ruggles and formed a part of his artillery line. On Monday it was near Shiloh Church. The Nineteenth Tennessee went with Colonel Maney Sunday to Lick Creek and was with him in the charge at Peach Orchard at 2.30 p. m., and at the time of the surrender of Prentiss was with Colonel Looney, Thirtyeighth Tennessee, at the camp of the Third Iowa.

The Twentieth Tennessee must have been engaged Monday with Breckinridge its colonel, Battle, was captured in the vicinity of Lost Field by the Seventy-seventh Pennsylvania.

UNATTACHED CAVALRY.

Forrest's (Tennessee) regiment was guarding the fords of Lick Creek until about 2.30 p. m. Sunday, when it arrived on the field and supported the left of the Twenty-sixth Alabama in the thick wood west of Peach Orchard.

Clanton's (Alabama) regiment moved down the Bark road to Lick Creek, and then down the banks of the Tennessee River, guarding the right flank of the army all day Sunday.

Wharton's Texas Rangers was on the left and at about 4.30 p. m. Sunday made a charge at Cavalry Field; was repulsed and Wharton wounded. It encamped on the left of the army and supported Ketchum's battery Monday, and in the afternoon charged the Union right and was repulsed.

Adams's (Mississippi) cavalry was at ford of Lick Creek until 2.30 p. m. Sunday, then in reserve.

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'Louisiana Cavalry" is mentioned; not certain whether or not it was Scott's First Louisiana.

DESIGNATION OF BATTERIES MENTIONED HEREIN.

11th Illinois.

20th Illinois.

45th Illinois.