ack. Wallace countermarched the two
brigades to keep his right in front, retraced his steps (being joined on
the way by Major Rawlins, Grant's adjutant, and by Colonel McPherson)
the greater part of the way to Stony Lonesome, and there took a rude
cross-road which came into the river road from Crump's to Pittsburg
Landing, about a mile from the bridge which had been guarded for his
approach. McPherson and Rawlins confirmed Captain Rowley's statement of
the disastrous falling back of the National lines toward the river. The
wagons were not allowed to accompany the column, but continued on
through Stony Lonesome to Crump's Landing, and the Fifty-sixth Ohio, and
one gun from Thurber's battery were detached to guard them. Whittlesey's
brigade, at Adamsville, received at two o'clock the order to march.
Sending the wagons with the Sixty-eighth Ohio as guard to Crump's
Landing, the remaining three regiments pushed through the mud, the field
officers dismounting to let broken-down men ride, and overtook the other
brigades as they were beginning to cross Snake Creek. The Twenty-fourth
Indiana in advance, crossing the bridge just after sunset, deployed
skirmishers in front, marched along the road along the east bank of
Brier Creek, and halted in front of the camp of the Fourteenth Missouri,
which regiment was occupying its camp. The Twentieth Ohio, the rear
regiment of the division, halted on the bank of Brier Creek ravine, in
front of the camp of the Eighty-first Ohio, at eight o'clock. The
division facing to the right, making a front to the west, along the
ravine, brought the Twenty-fourth Indiana to the left and the Twentieth
Ohio to the right of the division. The batteries having been left at the
junction of the cross-road and the river road, till all the infantry had
crossed, followed in their rear, and were posted near the bank.

The remainder of Nelson's division followed Ammen's brigade late in the
evening. Crittenden's division arrived in the night. McCook receiving
orders to hasten forward in the morning, while twelve miles out from
Savannah, halted at the outskirts of the village at seven o'clock P.M.,
rested his men two hours, marched to the landing, seized such boats as
were there and such as arrived, and reached Pittsburg Landing at five
o'clock Monday morning with Rousseau's brigade and one regiment of
Kirk's brigade.

General Grant and General Buell met at Sherman's headquarters in the
evening; it was there agree