d_., pp. 274, 254.

(22) _War Records_, vol. vii., pp. 167, 270.

(23) _Ibid_., pp. 269, 283, 288.

(24) General Beatty accuses me, justly, of depriving him, at Bell's
Tavern when very hungry, of a supper, by too freely commenting,
when we were seated at the mess-table, on the _soupy_ character
and the _color_ of the mule hairs in the coffee.--_Citizen Soldier_,
p. 106.

(25) _War Records_, vol. vii., pp. 426, 433.

(26) Forrest's Rep., _Ibid_., vol. vii., p. 429.

(27) _War Records_, vol. vii., pp. 619-621, 624.

(28) Grant's _Memoirs_, vol. i., p. 320.

(29) Grant was born April 27, 1822, at Point Pleasant, Clermont
Co., Ohio.

(30) Grant's _Memoirs_, vol. i, p. 326; _War Records_, vol. vii.,
pp. 683-3.

(31) _War Records_, vol. vii., p. 853.

CHAPTER VI
Battle of Shiloh--Capture of Island No. 10--Halleck's Advance on
Corinth, and Other Events

General Albert Sidney Johnston, while at Murfreesboro (February 3,
1862) assumed full command of the Central Army, Western Department,
and commenced its reorganization for active field work, and on the
27th commenced moving it, with a view to concentrate to Corinth,
Miss.( 1)

General P. G. T. Beauregard, March 5th, assumed command of the Army
of the Mississippi. On the 29th the Confederate armies of Kentucky
and the Mississippi were consolidated at Corinth under the latter
designation, Johnston in chief command, with Beauregard as second,
and Generals Leonidas Polk, Braxton Bragg, Wm. J. Hardee, and Geo.
B. Crittenden, respectively, commanding corps. Later, General John
C. Breckinridge was assigned to the Reserve Corps, relieving
Crittenden. The total strength of this army was 59,774, and present
for duty (April 3d) 49,444.( 2) This was, then, the most formidable
and best officered and organized army of the Confederacy for active
field operations. To confront this large force there was the Army
of the Tennessee, with an aggregate present for duty of 44,895, of
all arms.( 3) Grant had sixty-two pieces of artillery, and his
troops consisted of five divisions commanded, respectively, by
Generals John A. McClernand, W. H. L. Wallace, Lew Wallace, Stephen
A. Hurlburt, W. T. Sherman, and B. M. Prentiss.

On April 3, 1862, the Army of the Mississippi was started for
Shiloh, about twenty miles distant, under a carefully prepared
field-order, assigning to each corps its line of march and place
of assembling and giving general and detailed instruct