branch, engaging the same federal troops, which is sherman s division supported by brigade from mclernen s division and an extra battery from mclernen was holding the shiloh ridge and meeting the successive attacks and defeating them in detail. so if you just think about that issue of co-mingling of the confederate commands. no longer is it co-mingling of individual brigades, but a bigger problem is they re not brigades even from the same corps, meaning they re not even from the same organization within the confederate army. they re from a different organization of the confederate army and they don t know each other from adam in many respects because that organization at corinth was a concentration of troops from the gulf coast, troops that had fallen back from kentucky, troops that were coming over from the trans mississippi, troops coming up from new orleans and so they ve never been organized together in an army formation and now they re going into their first battle and i