Show GRANT AND McCOOK An Interesting Extract from Genera Grants Personal Memoirs The timber of Ifs Which Defeated the Confederates at Shiloh With a Soldiers Frankness lie Admits the Injustice to McCook Grants Memoirs of Shiloh NEW YOEK June 90ther extracts from General Grants Personal Memoirs read ns follows Some of tho critics claim that Shiloh was won when Johnston fell and that if he had not fallen the army under me would have been annihilated or captured IFS DEFEATED THE CONFEDERATES Al Simon There is little doubt that we should have been disgracefully beaten if all the shells md bullets fired by us had passed harmlessly i aver the enemy and if all of theirs had taken effect Commanding generals are liable lia-ble to be killed during engagements and the fact that when he was shot Johnston was leading a brigade to induce them to make a hare which had been repeatedly ordered is evidence that there was neither the universal uni-versal demoralization on our side nor the inbounded confidence on theirs which has been claimed There was in fact no hour luring the day when I doubted the eventual I lefeat of the enemy although I was disappointed disap-pointed that reenforcements so near at land did not arrive at an earlier hour In his connection he refers to his article in the Century and his remarks in it IN HEOABD TO GENEUAL A MD MCOOK Which caused so much public comment He ells of a long march of the day before over he muddy roads by General McCooks division divi-sion of its conspicuous acts of gallantry m the day of the battle and concludes in hese words I refer to these circumstances circum-stances with minuteness because I did General Gen-eral McCook an injustice in my article in he Century though not to the extent one would suppose from the public press I am lot willing to do any one an injustice and if convinced that I have done one I am always al-ways willing to make fullest admission Then follows accounts of the siege and sapture of Vicksburg of his appointmentS is LieutenantGeneral and he adds In MY FIRST 1NTEBVIEW WITH MR LINCOLN Alone he stated to me that ho had never professed to be a military man or to know how campaigns should be conducted and lever wanted to interfere with them but hat procrastination on the part of commanders com-manders and the pressure of people at the North and of Congress which like the poor had forced him IB had always with him into issuing his wellknown series of executive execu-tive orders He did not know but they wanted had ever were all wrong All he or wanted he said was that some one would take the responsibility and act and call on aim for all assistance needed |