The 5th Ala. had its Lt. Col., brigade, afterwards Hall, wounded and Adjutant killed, and lost many of its bravest and best officers and men. The 12th Miss., and 26th Va., also acted nobly and suffered heavily. Perhaps if Mr. Pollard had been aware of the casualties above mentioned, he might have been induced to mention that Rodes' known as "Battle's Alabama brigade, " Tuskegee, Ala. ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND JEFFERSON DAVIS-A COMPARISON. Lincoln and Davis were the ple and the nation's honor in a chieftains of contending princi- hundred ways, he triumphed over ples and communities. The first his opponent. What are the rewas the head of the Federalistic sults secured by that bloody trielement, the other of State Sov- umph? What questions are setreign Democracy. By the power tled? The States are further of numbers, the one triumphed from union now than ever-the and the other fell, so far as princi- people are bound under a monples may be said to fall by the de- strous load of oppressions and feat of armies. The one was an tyrannies, and are at last, and unsettled, shifting, vulgar, rol- not unexpectedly, cursing the licking man-the other serious, being whose triumph was their grave, dignified, and determined. ruin! How stands his opponent? The one was a plebeian by nature-the other a nobleman. As between these contestants as men, the rise and fall of armies have done little else than to bring them locks at me;" "Thou did'st it!" out into stronger contrast. The Had Jefferson Davis sacrificed triumphant party is now dead-he those principles upon which his fills the grave of an unwept tyrant, people went into the struggle, the and will be execrated the more as arrogant North, and not the the wheels of time roll on, fanning South, would be the stricken land. the chaff from the wheat. Lin- Had Jefferson Davis departed coln cared nothing for the triumph from his determined "defensive of principle-he was satisfied with the din and clash of the hour.And so, at the sacrifice of princi Bowed with the sorrows of his people, he may still stand erect over the grave of his dead foe, and exclaim, "Shake not your gory warfare" - had he enlisted the slaves of the South in his armies under the flag of emancipation in SKETCH OF THE 1ST KENTUCKY BRIGADE. Two roads, the one from Cor- The other divisions had, on the inth, the other from Burnsville, night of the 5th, reached the polead to Pittsburg landing, they sitions assigned them and were unite on a ridge four miles from posted thus, the third corps formthe river, and thence the road, ed the first line of battle, its right gradually descending a long slope, resting on Lick creek and its left leads to the Tennessee, along a on Owl creek, and bivouacked in spur of the hilly range with later- order of battle within half a mile al slopes to Lick creek on the one of the enemy, who seems to have side and Owl creek on the other, been unconscious of the blow the whole tongue of land be- about to be struck. In rear of that, tween these streams is densely the first corps, under General wooded with unbroken forests, Bragg, bivouacked in order of batand as it approaches within a tle a quarter of a mile distant. mile of the river is covered, in ad- The second corps, under General dition, with a thick mass of un- Polk, was massed in column of dergrowth sweeping to its banks. brigades on the road from CorOn this unfavorable ground the inth, immediately in rear of the battle was to be fought. On the junction with the Monterey road, morning of April the 4th, at 3 and had orders to move up and o'clock, a. m., the reserve corps form in line of battle so soon as marched from Burnsville by way the troops in advance had moved of Farmington and Monterey ex- on sufficiently, while the reserve pecting to reach the point of corps, under General Breckinjunction of the two roads that ridge, was massed in column of night, a heavy rain storm, however, obstructed its progress as well as that of the other divisions of the army, and it was not until the night of the 5th of April that it reached the junction. Rations had been provided for three days, but no tents and no baggage were taken the want of which added greatly to the discomfort of the commands, and rendered many the enemy before him until the unfit for duty. The delay and the tired condition of the troops on the night of the 5th caused a difference of opinion to prevail at the Council of war as to the propriety of attacking, but General Johnston determined to proceed. VOL. IV. NO. V. brigades on the Monterey road with orders to move when General Polk's corps had passed, and hold itself subject to the contingencies of the day. At 5 a. m., on the morning of April 6th, General Hardee drove in the pickets of the enemy, and the terrible battle of Shiloh commenced. Steadily and irresistibly he swept on, driving camps were reached, where the resistance became most desperate. The second line of battle, under General Bragg, had by this time been brought up and intermingled with the first line, and the central advanced camp of the enemy was 26 abandoned by him only, however, hail of fire, murderous beyond that he might make the more description, from his covert of stubborn resistance behind it and trees and bushes, when General in front of the others. Observing Breckinridge was ordered up to an attempt of the enemy to flank break his line. Having been most on the extreme left, General Beau- of the day in observation on the regard sent orders to detach the Hamburg road, marching in colKentucky brigade, and send it to umn of regiments, the reserve that point. This was done-the was now moved by the left flank, command now devolving upon until opposite the point of attack, Col. Robt. P. Trabue, Colonel of rapidly deployed, in line of battle, the 4th Kentucky and senior Statham's brigade forming the Colonel of the brigade. During right, and Bowen's the left. The the whole of that bloody day, long slope of the ridge was here from 9 o'clock when it became en- abruptly broken by a succession gaged, it maintained the reputa- of small hills or undulations of tion of its native State, and slow- about fifty feet in height, dividing ly but surely pushed back the the rolling country from the river force opposed to it; it never gave bottom, and behind the crest of way or was broken, though terri- the last of these, the enemy was bly cut to pieces; it never charged concealed: opposite them, at the that it did not break the ranks of distance of seventy-five yards, the army, and it was found was another long swell or hillock, when the action closed in the the summit of which it was necesevening after ten hours of contin- sary to attain, in order to open uous fighting in the front rank of the army. It will be necessary to refer more particularly, to its movements as we progress. Owing to the dense mass of the undergrowth the troops were brought in close proximity to each other, and the firing was consequently destructive, murderous and deadly. fire, and to this elevation, the reserve moved, in order of battle, at a double-quick. In an instant, the opposing height was one sheet of flame. Battle's Tennessee regiment, on the extreme right, gallantly maintained itself, pushing forward under a withering fire, and establishing itself well in advance. Little's Tennessee regiTwo o'clock had arrived, the ment, next to it, delivered its fire whole army was, and had been at random and inefficiently, beengaged for hours, with the ex- came disordered, and retired, in ception of Bowen's and Statham's confusion down the slope; three brigades, of the reserve corps.- times it was rallied by its Lieut. The enemy had been driven Colonel, assisted by Colouel T. T. through, and from half of his Hawkins, Aid-de-Camp to Gen. camps, but refused to give back Breckinridge, and by the Adjufurther, giving way on his right tant General, and carried up the and left wings, he had massed his slope only to be as often repulsed, force heavily in the centre, and and driven back: the regiment of poured an almost unintermitting the enemy opposed to it, in the in |