Many of her public men, prominent in political life before and since the war, were in command of regiments.

The moral force of the victory was increased by the fact that so large a proportion of these prominent officers had been, like General Grant, connected with the Democratic party,--thus adding demonstration to assurance that it was an uprising of a people in defense of their government, and not merely the work of a political party seeking to extirpate slavery.

John A.Logan, Richard J.Oglesby, William R.Morrison, and William Pitt Kellogg were among the Illinois officers who shared in the renown of the victory.

General Lewis Wallace commanded a division made up of Indiana and Kentucky troops, and was honorably prominent.
The total force under General Grant was nearly fifty regiments, furnishing about twenty-eight thousand men for duty.

They had captured the strongest Confederate intrenchment in the West, manned by nearly seventeen thousand men.