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From a Sketch Prepared for the [Cincinnati] Gazette
Special
Correspondent by Division Engineer Freeman.
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REFERENCES.
Position of our Divisions and Brigades In camp on Sunday morning,
before attack:
“1st.”
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First Division, Major-General McClernand.
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“2d.”
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Second Division, Brigadier-General W. H. L. Wallace.
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(Third Division, Major-General Wallace, at Crump’s
Landing, 9 miles below.)
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“4th.”
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Fourth Division, Brigadier-General Hurlburt [sic].
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“5th.”
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Fifth Division, three Brigades (Buckland’s, Hildebrand’s
and McDowell’s) Brigadier General Sherman – Log church known as “Shiloh,” at
point Division Camp crosses the Corinth road; taken as headquarters rebel by
Commander-in-Chief Sunday afternoon.
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“6th.”
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Sixth Division, Brigadier General Prentiss.
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“7th.”
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Stuart’s brigade of General Sherman’s Division, forming
extreme left of our whole line.
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– Abstracted from "Battle of Pittsburg," The
Chicago Tribune, Chicago, Illinois, Wednesday, April 16, 1862, p. 2
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