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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:14 commissioned officers werer left unhurt. I heard" one of the soldier who was present at the time, say, that when they ceased fighting on Sabbath evening, there were 70 men, in line for duty, out of the wholes Regiment. It is said that Col. Mersy, when the Regiment was first drawn up in line after the battle was over, shed tears, saying, "Velr vel; dis is all dat is left of my little Nint!" ' It must have been a sad gight to see a Regimentr which) numbered over 1,000 men when at Paducah a few months previous, cut down to this small number. But guch is war. Such was the- battle of Shiloh, and snch the part taken in it by the- 9th 1ll. Inft. The writer well remembers the feeling which prevailed in the North with reference to it. There was rejoicing over it as a- victory. Still it was regarded as a dearly bought victory. There was a very decided feeling that somebody wus at fault. That the rebels had completely surprised our army. That our pickets were out but a- very short distance. Hence, the surprise. Gen. Grant, as chief in command, was faulted. It was charged that he was drunk at the time. That he had disobeyed orders, and landed his men on the wrong side of the river, etc. I heard a citizen of. Chicago, not a month ago, say that if Gen. Grant had made his appearance in Chicago immediately after the battle of Shiloh, he would have been mobbed, such was the feeling of indignation. It is not my province here to write a defense of Gen. Grant. Nor is it needed. His own brilliant career since that, has set him right in the minds of the people. A man who has captured more prisoners and more guns than the world-renowned warrior, Napoleon Bonaparte, certainly does not need, at this day, a written defense of his military career. Suffice it to say, the officers and men who Books History~~General History-of-the-Ninth-Regiment-Illinois-Volunteer-Infantry~~Marion-Morrison Nabu Press<

ISBN: 9781178523089

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