Book/Printed Material General Beauregard at Shiloh.
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Image 1 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. COMPLIMENTS OF THE AUTHOR 473 54 .L55 :opy 1 GENERAL BEAUREGARD AT SHILOH THC GRAHAM PRESS. 430-32 COMMON ST.. N. O LA.
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 2 of General Beauregard at Shiloh.
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 3 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. PREFACE GENEEAL BEAUEEGAED AT SHILOH, Sunday, April 6, 1863. Having- been an active participant in the famous campaign of Shiloh, from beginning to end^ desirous of establisliing a correct record of the...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 4 of General Beauregard at Shiloh.
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 5 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. General Beauregard at Shiloh, Sunday, April 6/62 By Y. R. LeMonnier, M. D. Ex-Fiitate, Company B, Crescent Begiment, Louisiana Infantry, Pond s Brigade, Puiggles Division, Bragg s Corps, Army of the Mississippi....
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 6 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. A. M., thirteen hours before. To say, therefore, that General Beauregard ordered the retreat as early as -i P. M. of the first day of the fight is so puerile that I...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 7 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. then comes his brief report of the conclusion of Sunday s battle, it was after 6 P. M., as before said, when the enemy s last position was carried. As I have...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 8 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. ston as the Tennessee Eiver; in another, General iPolk says, speak- ing of the Hornets Nest, that we were about half a mile from the river. The Hornets iSTest is nearly one...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 9 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. near Hurlburt s headquarters, is nearly or fully three-quarters of it mile from the river. From the fact that the enemy were on their chosen ground since March 17th and that its...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 10 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. noon Forrest received orders to fall back with Chalmer s brigade and camp upon the battle-field. Chalmers, on the contrary, in his official report (War Eecords loco citato, pages 550 and 551)...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 11 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. In Battles and Leaders, volume I, page 606, Col. Alexander E. Chisolm, who was on General Beauregard s staff, says: It so happened that I rejoined General Beauregard at a point near...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 12 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 10 plain truth must l^e told, our troops at the front were a thin line of exhausted men who Avere making: no furtlier headway and who were glad to receive orders to...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 13 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 11 tion of hostilities at 4 P. M. Sunday, April 6, 1863. I could stop here, for these are Official Eoports, puhlished by the government, Verba volant, scrlpto luanent, hut other proofs...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 14 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 12 fire; and by an order from the commanding general they were withdrawn from the field. The report of General Polk was written in September, 1862, when he had no access to...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 15 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 13 good order from the point gained, and took up our quarters for the night in one of the enemy s encampments. Brigadier-General Chalmers, page 550; Jackson, page 555, and S. A....
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 16 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 14 which occurrence the hardest fighting of the two days took place at the Hornets Xest until 5 :30 P. M., three hours after his father s death, Avhen General Prentiss and...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 17 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 15 Corinth, to attack Gi ant s army before Buell s arm} of 25.000 men could make a junction. And here comes tlie first cause of failure. Alfred Eowan, in General Beauregard/^...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 18 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 16 officers Avere insufficient in numbers, and were inefficient because of their ignorance of the tactics of war. In addition to these dis- advantages our three days supply of cooked rations was...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 19 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 17 the death of my father the battle was a great success, and had he not been killed everything indicated the total annihilation of Grant s army/ he would have said what...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 20 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 13 at least after the second repulse, do what General Knggles did at 4 P. M., that is, mass his artillery and open fire on Generals Wallace and Prentiss And, to cap...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 21 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 19 most brilliant victory of the war bnt to press forward and make a vigorous assault on the demoralized remnant of his forces, In W. M. Polk s Leonidas Polk, Bishop and...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 22 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 20 Prksident Jeffebsox Davjs. It is very, very miich to be regretted that a man like Mr. Davis, occupying such an exalted position, President of the Confederate States, should have had a...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 23 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 21 quoted, and how singular are the following words of General Bragg s report, on page 65 of Mr. Da^is booky Just at this time an order was received from the commanding...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 24 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 22 At 2 P. M. on Simclav my regiment, the Crescent, was shifted from Owl Creek Bridge on the extreme left to the Hornets Xest. On our Avay we saw General Beauregard;...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 25 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 23 General Buell. In Battles and Leaders, vohime I, page 506, General Buell writes: and one by one with Prentiss, between 5:30 and 6 o clock, they were forced to surrender. This...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 26 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 24 carried Do they not uphold the reasonableness of his fear lest Buell should make his junction with Grant? Was not Prentiss right when he said, To-morrow Bnell will change the tide...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 27 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 25 above the rank of colonel, some to be promoted to brigadiers, others to major-generals, so as to facilitate his organizing an army, and, third, that he should return to the command...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 28 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 26 colonel, but subject to promotion, should be sent to him if called for. These officers were to be men of experience, and it was absolutely necessary for him to have them...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 29 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 27 from all possible sources, Made, on the 2d of April, when that telegram was received from Cheatham at 10 P. M., an army of some 40,000 men, and enabled Generals Johnston...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 30 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 28 the spoils to-day. And let lis read in General Brass s report: and the large proportion of stragglers Especially was this the case after the occupation of the enemy s camps,...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 31 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. the condition of his army. Had that department transferred to his command the experienced officers General Beauregard had asl^ed for and had shown to be absolutely necessary, General Johnston wonld not have...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 32 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 30 which we entered our trysting-place. This isosceles is situated twenty-three miles northeast of Corinth. Miss., in the State of Tennessee and is known as Pittsburg Landing, on the Tennessee Kiver, a...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 33 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 31 by deep ravines and water courses leading into the creeks. In many of these ravines are running streams with the usual marshy margins. In 1863 this plateau was covered with open...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 34 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. 33 edge of the topography of the grounds, made their last stand on the river blnff, et finis coronat opus. The fruits of the battle of Shiloh were lost because of loss...
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 35 of General Beauregard at Shiloh.
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913
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Image 36 of General Beauregard at Shiloh. LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS 013 701 365 4 9
- Contributor: Le Monnier, Yves Reni
- Date: 1913