194.

168. Jno. Kirk, company H, 14th Virginia infantry, C. S. A. 193. H. W. Crone, Page's Battallion, Virginia artillery, C. S. A. W. H. Cole, company E, 7th Virginia infantry, C. S. A. G. W. Loop, company D, 11th Virginia infantry, C. S. A. 213. Captain J. F. Jordan, company B, 13th Virginia cavalry, C. S. A.

212.

214. Jno. Goodener, company A, 24th Virginia infantry, C. S. A. 215. W. G. King, company K, 28th Virginia infantry, C. S. A. 216. Robert Bibb, company E, 4th Virginia infantry, C. S. A. H. E. Lawhorne, Page's battallion, Virginia artillery, C. S. A.

241.

259. Alexander Corder, company I, 49th Virginia infantry, C. S. A.

260.

H. T. Elam, company A, 11th Virginia infantry, C. S. A. 261. G. W. Rice, company C, 11th Virginia infantry, C. S. A. 262. H. R. Fones, company C, 47th Virginia infantry, C. S. A. 263. G. Joyce, company B, 6th Virginia infantry, C. S. A. 264. Sergeant B. F. Kirby, company C, 61st Virginia infantry, C. S. A.

[From the Atlanta Journal, July, 1901.]

BATTLE OF SHILOH.

How the Federal Advance in the West was Crushed.

SOME VERY GALLANT FIGHTING.

What Beauregard and Grant Said About It-The Losses Were Very Heavy-Figures Showing the Forces Engaged-Longstreet

Not in Fight.

The author of the short sketch of the battle of Shiloh, which appeared in the Journal on last Saturday, was mistaken in some of his statements concerning that memorable conflict.

In the first place the Confederates did not capture the division of General Prentiss, "without the firing of a gun." Although the division was surprised, it made a gallant fight and did not surrender until late in the afternoon-about half-past 5 o'clock, says General Prentiss. General Beauregard, who took command of the Confed

erates upon the death of General Albert Sidney Johnston, says: "By 5 o'clock the whole Federal army except Prentiss's division with a part of W. H. L. Wallace's, had receded to the river bank, and the indomitable force which under Prentiss still contested the field was being environed on its left by brigades from the divisions of Breckinridge, Cheatham, and Withers, in that quarter. It remains to be said that Prentiss was equally encompassed on the other flank by a part of Ruggle's division together with some of General Polk's corps. Thus surrounded on all sides that officer whose division had been the first to come into collision with us that morning, stoutly keeping the field to the last, was now forced to surrender in person, just after 5: 30 P. M., with some 2,200 officers and men."

GRANT CORROBORATES BEAUREGARD.

General Grant corroborates this statement of General Beauregard, and adds: "If it had been true, as currently reported at the time, and yet believed by the thousands of people, that Prentiss and his division had been captured in their beds, there would not have been an all-day struggle with the loss of thousands killed and wounded on the Confederate side."

At the close of the battle of April 6th, General Grant had been forced back to his last stand on the banks of the Tennessee. Not a single attack had he made upon the Confederates during the whole day. All his camps and a rich spoil of cannon, small arms and other war material was in the hands of the victorious southerners.

Just before dark General Lew Wallace's division of fresh troops came upon the field, followed by the whole army of the Ohio, under General Buell.

On the next morning this new army under General Buell and the remnant of Grant's defeated troops, all under Grant orders, attacked the Confederates, who had not been reinforced by a single man, and who, though fearfully outnumbered, held their ground until late in the afternoon. Then, in accordance with the orders of Beauregard, they made a show of resuming the offensive, which checked the Federal attack. Then, unmolested they retired from the field, carrying the caissons loaded down with captured muskets and rifles, and bearing off, besides, thirty pieces of captured artillery, twenty-six stands of colors taken from the enemy, and nearly 3,000 prisoners. Many of the soldiers had also exchanged their arms for the superior ones of the Federals, captured in the battle of the 6th.

HOW THEY RETIRED.

The retirement of the Confederate army was screened from the Federals so far as such a thing could be done by a covering force of less than 3,000 men and 15 pieces of artillery under General Breckinridge, posted on elevated ground and commanding a wide view. Brigadier-General Thomas Jordan, Beauregard's adjutant-general, who had selected the ground for this covering force says: "There I remained until after 4 o'clock, or until the entire Confederate force had retired. General Breckinridge's troops being the last, and without seeing a single Federal soldier within the wide range of my eyes." The Confederate retreat was discovered on some parts of the line but no vigorous effort was made to interfere with them. An advance by two regiments, accompanied by General Grant has been dignified into a charge led by that officer, although they advanced but a short distance, and encountered a few skirmishers only.

General Grant reported his loss in the two days' fight as 1,754 killed, 8,408 wounded and 95 missing, in all 10,699.

The aggregate of Union troops engaged for the two days was by their own lowest estimate 58,000 effectives.

The total Confederate force engaged was by the very highest estimate 40,335.

NOT A DEFEAT.

General Buell, whose timely arrival saved the army of General Grant, says that to the Confederates "Shiloh did not seem to be a defeat, but rather the disappointment of a hope almost realized." They knew that they had attacked the victors of Ports Henry and Donelson, stormed and spoiled their camp and brought them to the verge of ruin. Very few of the Confederate soldiers, who fought at Shiloh, could in that day be found, who did not claim even the second day as more of a success to themselves than to the enemy, for the reason that they had fought a fresh army assisted by the remnant of Grant's defeated troops, and when they found the odds too great, had marched off the field undisturbed by even the semblance of a pursuit, carrying with them much of the spoil of the captured camp.

General Buell says that when he arrived upon the field on the evening of the 6th, there were of Grant's army "not more than 5,000 men in ranks and available for battle-the rest were either

killed, wounded, captured, or scattered in hopeless confusion for miles along the banks of the river.'

FRANTIC WITH FRIGHT.

General Nelson, leading the advance troops of the rescuing force, describes them as "cowering under the river banks-frantic with fright and utterly demoralized." And yet, under the influence of a large army of fresh troops, Grant had brought back into line for the second days' battle, these same demoralized men, and they fought with a heroism that atoned for their conduct on the first day. General Grant says that no better soldiers ever marched to battle than some of the men who on the first day at Shiloh fled panic-stricken from the field.

The day after the battle of Shiloh, when the Confederates had retired to their own defensive lines at Corinth, General Grant telegraphed to Halleck: "It would be demoralizing upon our troops here to be forced to retire upon the opposite bank of the river, and unsafe to remain on this many weeks without large reinforcements.' Let it be remembered that Buell's army was still with him when he sent that dispatch.

Although the Confederate attempt to crush Grant's army and then recover all that had been lost by the fall of Fort Donelson, had failed, Shiloh put such a check upon the Federal advance in the West, that after a half-hearted form and movement on their part to Corinth and occupation of that place, the Confederates, now under Bragg, made a bold march northward, which carried their lines for a while even to the Ohio river, and checked the Federal tide of the invasion for a year.

Allow me to add this much: General Longstreet was not at the battle of Shiloh, but was in Virginia at that very time, assisting General Joseph E. Johnston in checking the advance of General McClellan.

PROF. JOSEPH T. DERRY.

[From the Richmond, Va., Dispatch, September 1, 1901.]

THE LAND OF DIXIE.

Extract from a Reunion Speech Delivered by Governor
Taylor.

Governor Taylor has a style peculiar to himself. This is a fair specimen. The "orator" has this acknowledgment. His sentiment all must heartily commend.-Ed.

I love to live in the land of Dixie, under the soft southern skies, where summer pours out her flood of sunshine and showers, and the generous earth smiles with plenty. I love to live on southern soil, where the cotton fields wave their white banners of peace, and the wheat fields wave back their banners of gold from the hills and valleys which were once drenched with the blood of heroes. I love to live where the mocking birds flutter and sing in the shadowy coves, and bright waters ripple in eternal melody, by the graves where our heroes are buried. I love to breathe the southern air, that comes filtered through jungles of roses, whispering the story of southern deeds of bravery. I love to drink from'southern springs and southern babbling brooks, which once cooled the lips of Lee and Jackson and Forrest and Gordon, and the worn and weary columns of brave men who wore the gray. I love to live among southern men and women, where every heart is as warm as the southern sunshine and every home is a temple of love and liberty.

I love to listen to the sweet old southern melodies, which touch the soul and melt the heart and awaken to life ten thousand precious memories of the happy long ago, when the old-time darkies used to laugh and sing, and when the old-time black "mammy" soothed the children to slumber with her lullabies. But, oh, the music that thrills me most is the melody that died away on the lips of many a Confederate soldier as he sank into the sleep that knows no waking, "I'm glad I am in Dixie."

A BRILLIANT CIVILIZATION.

I doubt if the world will ever see another civilization as brilliant as that which perished in the South a third of a century ago. Its white