...sword-scabbard. All were thankful that it was no worse. ESTIMATE OF THE BATTLE. Shiloh was the most severe battle fought at the West during the war, and but few in the East equalled it for hard, determined fighting. I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day,...

...results, but as typical of many features of the war during the first two years. Shiloh (writes Grant) was the severest battle fought at the West during the war, and but few in the East equalled it for hard, determined fighting. I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day,...

...the smaller, and by afternoon the Confederates were in full retreat. Shiloh, says General Grant, " was the severest battle fought at the West during the war, and but few in the East equalled it for bard, determined fighting." It ended in a complete Union victory. General A. S. Johnston...

...pursuit must have resulted in the capture of a considerable number of prisoners and probably some guns. Shiloh was the severest battle fought at the West during the war, and but few in the East equalled it for hard, determined fighting. I saw an open field, in our possession on the second manded...

...appearance of the field at this point General Grant says: " Shiloh was the severest battle fought in the West during the war, and but few in the East equaled...determined fighting. I saw an open field in our possession, over which the Confederates had made repeated charges the day before, so covered with dead that it...

...July 13, 1863. Dec. 11, Gen. Palmer resigned. BATTLE OF SHILOH. General Grant, the commander, said: "Shiloh was the severest battle fought at the West...the East equaled it for hard, determined fighting. 1 saw an open field, in our possession on the second day, over which the Confederates had made repeated...

...terrible fighting afterward. ' ' Gen. Grant has said : ' ' Shiloh was the severest battle fought in the west during the war, and but few in the east equaled it for hard, determined fighting." Again he says in his Memoirs, speaking of Shiloh: "I saw an open field the second day, over which the...

...Grant,19 in his article entitled, "The Battle of Shiloh," already referred to in a footnote, said: "Shiloh was the severest battle fought at the West...the East equaled it for hard, determined fighting." And again he said: "No such contest ever took place on this continent in importance of results; but...

...sentimental talk of an easy conquest ceased upon both sides." Ulysses S. Grant, in his memoirs, wrote that "Shiloh was the severest battle fought at the West during the war. . . ."4 People like Grant, who had thought that one great battle would bring the war to a conclusion,...

...pursuit must have resulted in the capture of a considerable number of prisoners and probably some guns. Shiloh was the severest battle fought at the West during the war, and but few in the East equalled it for hard, determined fighting. I saw an open field, in our possession on the second day,...