The following extract from the official War Bulletin is complimentary to the commanding generals engaged.

"That the thanks of the Department are hereby given to Major-Generals Grant and Buell, and their forces, for the glorious repulse of Beauregard at Pittsburg, in Tennessee."

A salute of one hundred guns was fired at Washington, in honor of this and other victories which had recently taken place.

During this engagement, Major-General Grant was slightly wounded in the ankle, but not enough to prevent him from attending to his duties in the field.

It will be seen by the details of the struggle that on the first day, the success seemed to be entirely on the side of the rebels, and on that ground, General Beauregard, who succeeded General Johnston, telegraphed to the rebel government as follows:

CORINTH, Tuesday, April 8, 1862.

TO THE SECRETARY OF WAR, RICHMOND:

We have gained a great and glorious victory. Eight to ten thousand prisoners and thirty-six pieces of cannon. Buell re-enforced Grant, and we retired to our intrenchments at Corinth, which we can hold. Loss heavy on both sides. BEAUREGARD.

From the following correspondence it does not appear that the rebels could have moved about at will, or had even the consolation of a victory:

HEAD-QUARTERS. DEPARTMENT OF MISSISSIPPI,
MONTEREY, April 8, 1862.

SIR:-At the close of the conflict yesterday, my forces being exhausted by the extraordinary length of the time during which they were engaged with yours on that and the preceding day, and it being apparent that

you had received, and were still receiving, re-enforcements, I felt it my duty to withdraw my troops from the immediate scene of the conflict Under these circumstances, in accordance with the usages of war, I shall transmit this under a flag of truce, to ask permission to send a mounted party to the battle-field of Shiloh, for the purpose of giving decent interment to my dead. Certain gentlemen wishing to avail themselves of this opportunity to remove the remains of their sons and friends, I must request for them the privilege of accompanying the burial party; and in this connection, I deem it proper to say. I am asking what I have extended to your own countrymen under similar circumstances. Respectfully, General, your obedient servant,

P. G. T. BEAUREGARD, General Commanding. To Major-General U. S. GRANT, Major-General Commanding United States Forces, Pittsburg Landing.

HEAD-QUARTERS, ARMY IN FIELD,
PITTSBURG, April 9, 1862.

General P. G. T. BEAUREGARD, Commanding Confederate Army on Mississippi, Monterey, Tenn.

Your dispatch of yesterday is just received. Owing to the warmth of the weather I deemed it advisable to have all the dead of both parties buried immediately. Heavy details were made for this purpose, and it is now accomplished. There cannot, therefore, be any necessity of admitting within our lines the parties you desired to send on the ground asked. I shall always be glad to extend any courtesy consistent with duty, and especially so when dictated by humanity. I am, General, respectfully, your obedient servant,

U. S. GRANT, Mi-Gen. Commanding.

On the morning of April 8th, General Sherman, the commander of the Fifth Division, at the head of a cavalry force and two brigades of infantry, made a reconnoissance along the Corinth road, where he found the abandoned camps of the rebels lining the roads with hospital flags for their protection. Shortly after he came upon the rebel cavalry, which, after a skirmish, was driven from the field. He then destroyed the rebel camp, including the ammunition intended for the rebels' guns.

General Sherman found the road to Corinth strewed

with abandoned wagons, ambulances, and limber-boxes,evident sign of a hasty retreat. The enemy had succeeded in removing the guns; but had crippled his batteries by abandoning the limber-boxes of, at least, twenty pieces. The retreat of the enemy's infantry was evidently a disorderly one, and had not the cavalry been in great force, to protect the rear, might soon have been turned into a disas

trous rout.

When the news of this battle reached St. Louis, General Halleck, the commander of the department, determined to take the field himself, and inquire into the real results of the "Battle of Shiloh."

On his arrival at Pittsburg Landing, he issued the following order to the troops:

HEAD-QUARTERS, DEPARTMENT OF THE MISSISSIPPI,
PITTSBURG, TENN., April 13, 1862.

I. The major-general commanding this department thanks MajorGeneral Grant and Major-General Buell, and the officers and men of their respective commands, for the bravery and endurance with which they sustained the general attacks of the enemy on the 6th, and for the heroic manner in which, on the 7th instant, they defeated and routed the entire rebel army. The soldiers of the great West have added new laurels to those which they had already won on numerous battle-fields.

III. Major-Generals Grant and Buell will retain the immediate command of their respective armies in the field.

By command of

N. H. MCLEAN, A. A. G.

Major-General HALLECK

Cavalry skirmishes still continued, at intervals, to take place along the outposts of the Union army; but nothing important occurred until April 17, 1862, when the movement was made towards Corinth.

CHAPTER XI.

MOVEMENT AND SIEGE OF CORINTH.

ON the morning of April 17, 1862, a heavy cavalry force under Brigadier-General Smith, Chief of Cavalry, was detailed to make a reconnoissance along the upper road from Pittsburg Landing to Corinth. The force arrived within two miles of Monterey without meeting any opposition. Several of the men dismounted to act as skirmishers, and steadily advanced until they discovered the exact position of a large force of the enemy, when they fell back upon the main body and returned.

On April 24th, another similar reconnoissance was made under the same commander, towards an elevation known as Pea Ridge, where a rebel camp was discovered and destroyed, and a few prisoners taken.

The operations along the Mississippi River, had also opened that highway some distance below Island No. 10, and on learning this, General Beauregard, who had assumed the sole chief command of the rebel troops, issued an address to the planters as follows:

"The casualties of war have opened the Mississippi to our enemies. The time has, therefore, come to test the earnestness of all classes, and I call upon all patriotic planters owning cotton in the possible reach of our enemies, to apply the torch to it without delay or hesitation."

It was thought that, by this mode of procedure, the Union troops would have less inducements to fight, as the profit of their victories would necessarily be greatly de

creased. In this, however, the rebels had greatly deceived themselves.

On April 27th, Purdy, on the Jackson and Corinth Railroad, was abandoned by the rebels, and a cavalry skirmish took place near Monterey, a village situated at about ten miles from Corinth. Several prisoners were taken, and from them it was ascertained that Beauregard was concentrating all his available force at Corinth, which he had fortified, and where, he stated, he was determined to make a desperate resistance. On the 29th, a similar affair took place at Monterey, the rebels losing their camp and several prisoners.

A reconnoissance in force was made by the right wing of General Halleck's grand army, on April 30, 1862, to a point of the railroad four miles above Purdy, between Corinth and Jackson, Tennessee. The Union troops were met by a body of rebel cavalry, who fled to that town, closely pursued by the advancing forces. Purdy was taken possession of by the Unionists, who soon, by the destruction of bridges, etc., cut off all railroad communication along that route between Corinth and Northwestern Tennessec. On this day the siege of Corinth may be said to have commenced.

General Halleck, wishing to have a force of men under hin; that should be invincible in the event of a battle taking place, sent for all the unemployed troops in his large department, and ordered them to be concentrated at Pittsburg Landing, which was constituted a base of operations in the movement upon Corinth. This force he designated as the "Grand Army of the Tennessee," a special compli ment to General Grant, the commander of the original Army of the Tennessee. The " Grand Army" was divided into three armies, as follows: