, leaving Prentiss' left in air. Through the two gaps
thus made the Confederate left and right poured in and encircled
Prentiss and Wallace. After their surrender there was no fighting,
except Chalmers' bold, but idle assault.

In this day's battle the National loss was nearly ten thousand killed,
wounded, and captured. The Confederate loss was as great in killed and
wounded, but the loss in prisoners was small.

CHAPTER VII.

SHILOH--NIGHT, AND MONDAY.

The vice of the formation of Johnston's army into three long, thin,
parallel lines, together with the broken character of the ground and the
variable obstinacy of resistance encountered, produced a complete and
inextricable commingling of commands. General Beauregard left it to the
discretion of the different commanders to select the place for bivouac
for the night.

Colonel Pond, retiring from his disastrous repulse toward the close of
the afternoon, found himself wholly separated by an interval of more
than a quarter of a mile from the nearest support, the whole of the
Confederate left having drifted from him toward the southeast.
Assembling all his brigade, except the Crescent Regiment, which had
become detached, and recalling his battery--Ketchum's--he remembered
that the special duty had been assigned to him, by General Bragg, of
guarding the flank along Owl Creek. When night fell, he moved to his
rear and then to his left, and bivouacked in line facing to the east, on
the high land west of Brier Creek. Ketchum's battery was placed in a
field a little back from the ravine. He posted pickets to his rear as
well as to his front. The other two brigades of Ruggles' division spent
the night to the east of Shiloh Church.

Jackson's brigade, of Withers' division, when it recoiled from its
fatal attack on Hurlbut and the reserve artillery, went to pieces.
Jackson with the battery marched to Shiloh Church and reported to
General Beauregard. He saw nothing more of his brigade till he rejoined
it at Corinth. Chalmers, abandoning his vain assault, was astonished to
find that the army had fallen back, leaving him alone. He fell back to
the field where Prentiss surrendered, and there rested. Of the remaining
brigade, Gladden's, the merest fragment cohered; this little band, or
detachment, bivouacked near the Hamburg road. Trabue's brigade, except
one regiment which had become separated, spent the night in the tents of
McDowell's brigade camp; Breckenridge's other