CHAPTER IX.

SHILOH.

The Gloomy Winter of 1861-2--Exultation over Donelson--The Advance up the Tennessee--Responsibility for the Encampment at Pittsburgh Landing--Controversies over the Battle-- Varying Accounts--Sherman's Personal Heroism--Number of Troops Engaged on Both Sides--Services of the Army of the Ohio--Losses of the two Armies 116