y of his camp, without
having encountered opposing infantry. It was discovered that a body of
the enemy was advancing beyond the left of the line. McClernand moved by
the flank to the left till the left regiments came to a field in rear of
his camp, and charged across it against a battery and its supports on
the farther side. The Fifty-third and Eighty-first Ohio recoiled, were
ordered back, fell to the rear in some disorder, and the whole line
retired. The Twenty-eighth Illinois was moved forward from Hurlbut's
reserve and added to McClernand's left. The line again advanced, pushed
the enemy back through McClernand's camp, where he made a stand, and
McClernand was again compelled to yield. General McCook now extended his
right by throwing forward the Louisville Legion. The two divisions
connected, and the Twenty-eighth Illinois returned to the reserve.

Sherman, being ordered by General Grant early in the morning to advance
and recapture his camps, sent his staff out to gather in the members of
his command. Colonel Sullivan marched the Forty-eighth Ohio, at dawn,
out from the reserve artillery, and Buckland's brigade was complete.
Colonel Stuart was found near the landing with two regiments of his
brigade, and a small detachment of the Third, the Seventy-first Ohio.
The Thirteenth Missouri, temporarily attached to Sherman, which had
become entangled with McClernand's command the previous afternoon, and
bivouacked at night in his line, was regained. Portions of the
Fifty-seventh and Seventy-seventh Ohio still adhered. Major Taylor,
chief of artillery, brought Lieutenant Wood's battery. The column being
formed, he marched by the flank toward the west to the bluffs of Owl
Creek, and along them to an open field at the extreme right of
McClernand's camp, and awaited the approach of McCook on the Corinth
road. Hearing heavy firing in front of Rousseau, about ten o'clock, and
observing it gradually gaining ground toward Shiloh Church, he moved the
head of his column to General McClernand's right, formed line of battle,
facing south, with Buckland next to McClernand and Stuart on his right,
and advanced slowly and steadily under a heavy fire of musketry and
artillery.

General Lewis Wallace discovered at dawn, on the bluff on the opposite
side of Brier Creek, and just facing Thompson's battery, a hostile
battery. The Twentieth Ohio discharging their rifles to clear them, were
answered by a volley that disclosed the presence o