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Show A INTERESTING WAR PAPER. Suiloh and the Part General ITlc-Cook's ITlc-Cook's Division Acted. Among the many war papers that have appeared in the Century Magazine treating treat-ing on the famous battle of Shiloh, there have been few indeed more interesting than the contribution of General Don Carlo3 Buel, which is given in the Century Cen-tury for March. Of course it views the field from General Buel's standpoint, and is, therefore, as might be expected, slightly at variance with General Grant's recitation of the details, but, in the matter mat-ter of important facts, offers no particular particu-lar difference. Of the several portrait engravings accompanying the article, a very excellent one tifGeneral Alex. McD. McCook becomes at once an attraction at-traction to the Century readers in Utah. The cut represents . the General in his younger days, but the features are easily recognized. In referring to the various opinions of Union officers regarding' the very important part which General Mc-Cook's Mc-Cook's division performed at Shiloh, the writer quotes the following, from the pen of General Sherman : " Willich's regiment had been repulsed, but a whole brigade of McCook's division advanced beautifully, deployed and entered en-tered this dreaded woods. I concede that General McCook's splendid division from Kentucky drove back the enemy along the Corinth road, which was the great central line of this battle." The writer, in comnVentiug on the reports of General Sherman and others, says : "The conclusion to be drawn from the3e several reports is that, at this stage of the battle, McCook's division reached across and practically connected the army of the Ohio with Wallace's division, which formed the extreme right of Grant's force, and that its steady valor and effective ef-fective service, not without the co-operation of McClernand's, Hubert's and Sherman's Sher-man's commands, decided the issue of the conflict on that portion of the field." |