ding forward strong reinforcements to our left. From eight
o'clock to 8.30 the cannonading was very heavy along the whole line, but
especially in the centre, which was in the line of their camps. About
ten o'clock you moved forward with your staff and halted within about
half a mile of the enemy's camps."

[Illustration: The Field of Shiloh.]

SHERMAN'S DIVISION.

The Seventy-seventh Ohio, of Hildebrand's brigade, was ordered the
evening before to go out to See's, Sunday morning, and reinforce the
picket reserve stationed there, and was up early Sunday morning. General
Buckland, having slept little in the night, rose early. While at
breakfast he received word that the pickets were heavily attacked, and
were falling back toward camp. He at once had the long-roll sounded, and
his brigade formed on the color-line. He rode over to General Sherman's
headquarters, a few hundred yards off, and reported the facts.
Meanwhile, the brigades of Hildebrand and McDowell formed on their
respective color-lines. The division was formed--Taylor's battery on a
rising ground in front of Shiloh Church; Hildebrand's brigade to its
left, the Seventy-seventh Ohio being next to the battery, and four guns
of Waterhouse's battery placed between the Fifty-seventh and Fifty-third
Ohio--the Fifty-third detached and forming the extreme left. The other
two guns of Waterhouse's battery were advanced to the front beyond Oak
Creek. Buckland's brigade formed to the right of Taylor's battery, and
McDowell's still farther to the right, on the bluffs of Oak Creek, near
its junction with Owl Creek, and separated from Buckland by a lateral
ravine which opened into Oak Creek. Behr's battery was with McDowell.
One of its guns, with two companies of infantry, was stationed still
farther to the right, commanding the bridges over Oak Creek and Owl
Creek, immediately above their junction.

The advanced section of Waterhouse's battery fell back before an
approaching skirmish line and took position with the battery. General
Sherman rode to the front of the Fifty-third, to the edge of a ravine,
the continuation or source of Oak Creek, and saw, through the forest
beyond, Johnston's lines sweeping across his front toward his left. At
the same time, General Johnston was, a few hundred yards off, on the
other side of the ravine, putting General Hindman with one of his
brigades into position for attack. Hindman's skirmishers opened fire and
killed Sherman's orderly. She