Of course, subsequent events gave General Grant and most of the other actors in that battle their appropriate place in history, but the danger of sudden popular clamors is well illustrated by this case.
Tho battle of Shiloh, or Pittsburg Landing, was one of the most fiercely contested of the war.

On the morning of April 6, 1862, the five divisions of McClernand, Prentiss, Hurlbut, W.H.L.
Wallace, and Sherman, aggregated about thirty-two thousand men.

We had no intrenchments of any sort, on the theory that as soon as Buell arrived we would march to Corinth to attack the enemy.

The rebel army, commanded by General Albert Sidney Johnston, was, according to their own reports and admissions, forty-five thousand strong, had the momentum of attack, and beyond all question fought skillfully from early morning till about 2 a.m., when their commander-in-chief was killed by a Mini-ball in the calf of his leg, which penetrated the boot and severed the main artery.

There was then a perceptible lull for a couple of hours, when the attack was renewed, but with much less vehemence, and continued up to dark.