On the other side, the side of the South, nearly every man who holds office of any sort whatever, either in the state or in the nation, was a Confederate soldier, but this is easily accounted for from the fact that the South was a military camp, and there were very few people of a suitable age to be in the army who were not in it.
(*6) C.B.Lagow, the others not yet having joined me.
(*7) NOTE .-- Since writing this chapter I have received from Mrs.
W.H.L.Wallace, widow of the gallant general who was killed in the first day's fight on the field of Shiloh, a letter from General Lew.

Wallace to him dated the morning of the 5th.

At the date of this letter it was well known that the Confederates had troops out along the Mobile & Ohio railroad west of Crump's landing and Pittsburg landing, and were also collecting near Shiloh.

This letter shows that at that time General Lew.
Wallace was making preparations for the emergency that might happen for the passing of reinforcements between Shiloh and his position, extending from Crump's landing westward, and he sends it over the road running from Adamsville to the Pittsburg landing and Purdy road.

These two roads intersect nearly a mile west of the crossing of the latter over Owl Creek, where our right rested.