Chapter 12

Kilby Smith, Colonel Smart being wounded) to form on its right, and my fourth brigade, Colonel Bnekland, on its right; all to advance abreast with this Kentucky brigade before mentioned, which I afterward found to be Rousseau's brigade of McCook's division. I gave personal direction to the twenty-four pounder guns, whose well-directed fire first silenced the enemy's guns to the left, and afterward at the Shiloh meeting-house.

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