ht of Bragg's line, did not appear. Successive messengers bringing no
satisfaction, General Johnston rode to the rear with his staff, till he
found Ruggles' division standing still, with its head in an open field.
It was set in motion, Polk followed; Cheatham arrived from Purdy;
Breckenridge extricated his command from the deep mud, and, by four
o'clock in the afternoon, the deployment and formation of the army was
complete. It was too late to attack that day. Beauregard urged that it
was too late to attack at all, that it would now be impossible to
effect a surprise, that the expedition should be abandoned and the
troops march back to Corinth. Johnston directed the troops to bivouac,
and attack to be made next day at daylight.

Of the five divisions at Pittsburg Landing, the organization of
four--the First, McClernand's; Second, C.F. Smith's, commanded by
Brigadier-General W.H.L. Wallace, General Smith being ill at Savannah;
the Fourth, Hurlbut's; and the Fifth, Sherman's--was completed. The
Sixth, commanded by Prentiss, was still in process of formation.
McClernand's First Brigade, composed of the Eighth and Eighteenth
Illinois, Eleventh and Thirteenth Iowa, was commanded by Colonel Hare,
of the Eleventh Iowa; the Second was composed of the Eleventh,
Twentieth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-eighth Illinois, and commanded by Col.
Marsh, of the Twentieth Illinois; the Third, of the Seventeenth,
Twenty-ninth, Forty-third, and Forty-ninth Illinois. Colonel Ross, of
the Seventeenth Illinois, the senior colonel, being ill and absent, the
command of this brigade devolved on Colonel Reardon, of the
Twenty-ninth. The Second Division comprised three brigades: the First,
commanded by Colonel Tuttle, of the Second Iowa, contained the Second,
Seventh, Twelfth, and Fourteenth Iowa; the Second, commanded by
Brigadier-General McArthur, comprised the Thirteenth and Fourteenth
Missouri, Ninth and Twelfth Illinois, and Eighty-first Ohio. The
Fourteenth Missouri, at that time, went by the name of Birge's
Sharpshooters; the Third, commanded by Colonel Sweeney, of the
Fifty-second Illinois, comprised the Eighth Iowa, and the Seventh,
Fiftieth, Fifty-second, Fifty-seventh, and Fifty-eighth Illinois. The
Fourth Division contained three brigades: the First, commanded by
Colonel Williams, of the Third Iowa, contained the Third Iowa,
Twenty-eighth, Thirty-second, and Forty-first Illinois; the Second,
commanded by Colonel Veatch, of the Twenty-fifth In