nd of division commanders. The batteries of Schwartz and
McAllister, and Burrow's Fourteenth Ohio Battery served with
McClernand's division. Willard's Company A, First Illinois Artillery,
commanded by Lieutenant Wood, and Major Cavender's battalion of
Companies D, H, and I, First Missouri Artillery, were attached to W.H.L.
Wallace's division. Mann's four-gun battery, Ross' Second Michigan, and
Myer's Thirteenth Ohio batteries, were attached to Hurlbut's division.
Behr's Sixth Indiana Battery, and Barrett's Company B, and Waterhouse's
Company E, First Illinois Artillery, were attached to Sherman's
division. Barrett's battery had formerly been commanded by Captain Ezra
Taylor, promoted Major of the First Illinois Artillery, and was still
commonly called Taylor's battery, and is so styled in some of the
reports of the battle. Munch's Minnesota and Hickenlooper's Fifth Ohio
Battery were attached to Prentiss' division. There was some change in
the assignment of batteries on April 5th. The above gives their position
as it was on April 6th. Bouton's Company I, First Illinois Artillery,
and Dresser's battery, commanded by Captain Timony, though not assigned,
were given positions on the field by Major Ezra Taylor, Sherman's chief
of artillery, by direction of General Grant. Margraff's Eighth Ohio
Battery served with Sherman, Powell's Company F, Second Illinois
Artillery, served with Prentiss. Madison's Company B, Second Illinois
Artillery, served at the landing. Captain Silversparre's four-gun
battery of twenty-pound Parrotts, though assigned to McClernand,
remained at the landing from lack of horses and equipage to pull them
out to camp.
The Third Division, commanded by General Lewis Wallace, comprised three
brigades: The First Brigade, commanded by Colonel Morgan L. Smith, of
the Eighth Missouri, comprising the Eleventh and Twenty-fourth Indiana
and the Eighth Missouri, was in camp at Crump's Landing; the Second
Brigade, commanded by Colonel Thayer, of the First Nebraska, comprising
the First Nebraska, Twenty-third Indiana, and Fifty-eighth and
Sixty-eighth Ohio, was camped at Stony Lonesome, two miles out from
Crump's Landing; the Third Brigade, commanded by Colonel Whittlesey, of
the Twentieth Ohio, comprising the Twentieth, Fifty-sixth,
Seventy-sixth, and Seventy-eighth Ohio, was in camp at Adamsville, three
miles out beyond Stony Lonesome, or five miles from Crump's Landing.
Buell's Battery I, First Missouri Artillery, co
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