This falling back had taken place before I sent General Wallace orders to move up to Pittsburg landing and, naturally, my order was to follow the road nearest the river.

But my order was verbal, and to a staff officer who was to deliver it to General Wallace, so that I am not competent to say just what order the General actually received.
General Wallace's division was stationed, the First brigade at Crump's landing, the Second out two miles, and the Third two and a half miles out.

Hearing the sounds of battle General Wallace early ordered his First and Third brigades to concentrate on the Second.

If the position of our front had not changed, the road which Wallace took would have been somewhat shorter to our right than the River road.
U.S.GRANT.
MOUNT MACGREGOR, NEW YORK, June 21, 1885.
(*8) NOTE: In an article on the battle of Shiloh which I wrote for the Century Magazine, I stated that General A.McD.

McCook, who commanded a division of Buell's army, expressed some unwillingness to pursue the enemy on Monday, April 7th, because of the condition of his troops.