CHAPTER XXV.
STRUCK BY A BULLET--PRECIPITATE RETREAT OF THE CONFEDERATES -- INTRENCHMENTS AT SHILOH--GENERAL BUELL--GENERAL JOHNSTON--REMARKS ON SHILOH.
During this second day of the battle I had been moving from right to left and back, to see for myself the progress made.

In the early part of the afternoon, while riding with Colonel McPherson and Major Hawkins, then my chief commissary, we got beyond the left of our troops.

We were moving along the northern edge of a clearing, very leisurely, toward the river above the landing.

There did not appear to be an enemy to our right, until suddenly a battery with musketry opened upon us from the edge of the woods on the other side of the clearing.

The shells and balls whistled about our ears very fast for about a minute.