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, remember, 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 in doing so, they find themselves based upon the attack plan designed by beauregard engaged in the same point of ground, their commands completely co-mingled, under the federal guns being shot to pieces, and they re losing command and control. it was nightmarish for them here. it had to be literally nightmarish. on
marching to the south, southwest to corinth road. by 5:50 a.m., three shots rank out. they had hit, apparently k confederate kal vary. they were mounted who road away from the federals after they fired at them. the combat one troel was under the command of major james powell who threw the men into towards the location where we re now standing. when the elelements of the swirmish line brouk out here, they encountered infantry picket posts, seven man details who fired off shots at the federals and retired. just the gray light of dawn breaking, very quiet morning except for the sudden eruption of the few muskets being fired, a few shouts being heard across the landscape, when in the far distance, the union troops would have picked up in the darkness, darker forms here at the junction of woods. and those darker forms were the main picket front of hardee s corps, they were standing there in formation. the federals slowly advance and hardkasle unleashes a massive the confederat
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