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253 Series I Volume X-I Serial 10 - Shiloh Part I

Page 253 Chapter XXII. PITTSBURG LANDING, OR SHILOH, TENN.

Colonel Stuart was wounded severely, and yet reported for duty on Monday morning, but was compelled to leave during the day, when the command devolved on Colonel T. Kilby Smith, Fifty-fourth Ohio, who was always in the thickest of the fight and led the brigade handsomely. I have not yet received Colonel Stuart's report of the operations for his brigade during the time he was detached, and must therefore forbear to mention names. Lieutenant-Colonel Kyle, of the Seventy-first, was mortally wounded on Sunday, but the regiment itself I did not see, as only a small fragment of it was with the brigade when it joined the division on Monday morning. Great credit is due the fragments of men of the disordered regiments who kept in the advance. I observed and noticed them, but until the brigadiers and colonels make their reports I cannot venture to name individuals, but will in due season notice al who kept in our front line, as well as those who preferred to keep back near the steamboat landing.

I will also send a full list of the killed, wounded, and missing, by name, rank, company, and regiment. At present I submit the result in figures:*

Killed Wounded Missing

Command. Offi Enlis Offi Enlist Offic Enlis Aggre

cers ted cers ed men ers ted gate

men men

First

Brigade:

40th Illinois 1 42 7 148 --- 2 ---

6th Iowa 2 49 3 117 --- 39 ---

46th Ohio 2 32 3 147 --- 52 ---

Morton 1 --- --- --- --- --- ---

Battery

Total First 6 123 13 412 --- 93 647

Brigade

Second

Brigade:

55th Illinois 1 45 8 183 --- 41 ---

54th Ohio 2 22 5 128 --- 32 ---

71st Ohio 1 12 --- 52 1 45 ---

Total Second 4 79 13 363 1 118 578

Brigade;

Third

Brigade:

53rd Ohio --- 7 --- 39 --- 5 ---

57th Ohio 2 7 --- 82 --- 33 ---

77th Ohio 1 48 7 107 3 53 ---

Total Third 3 62 7 228 3 91 394

Brigade

Fourth

Brigade:

48th Ohio 1 13 3 70 1 45 ---

70th Ohio --- 9 1 53 1 39 ---

72nd Ohio 2 13 5 85 --- 49 ---

Total Fourth 3 35 9 208 2 133 390

Brigade

Barrett's --- 1 --- 5 --- --- 6

battery

Taylor's --- --- --- ---- --- --- ---

battery (no

report)

Waterhouse's --- 1 3 14 --- --- 18

battery

Orderly --- 1 --- --- --- --- 1

Grand total 16 302 45 1,203 6 435 2,034

The enemy captured seven of our guns on Sunday, but on Monday we recovered seven guns-not the identical guns we had lost, but enough in numbers to balance the account. At the time of recovering our camps our men were so fatigued that we could not follow the re-

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*But see revised statement, p. 103

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