CHAPTER XV.
SHILOH AND THE SIEGE OF CORINTH.
The Error of the Rebels .-- Story of a Surgeon .-- Experience of a Rebel Regiment .-- Injury to the Rebel Army .-- The Effect in our own Lines .-- Daring of a Color-Bearer .-- A Brave Soldier .-- A Drummer-Boy's Experience .-- Gallantry of an Artillery Surgeon .-- A Regiment Commanded by a Lieutenant .-- Friend Meeting Friend and Brother Meeting Brother in the Opposing Lines .-- The Scene of the Battle .-- Fearful Traces of Musketry-Fire .-- The Wounded .-- The Labor of the Sanitary Commission .-- Humanity a Yankee Trick .-- Besieging Corinth .-- A Cold-Water Battery .-- Halleck and the Journalists .-- Occupation of Corinth.
The fatal error of the Rebels, was their neglect to attack on the 4th, as originally intended.

They were informed by their scouts that Buell could not reach Savannah before the 9th or 10th; and therefore a delay of two days would not change the situation.

Buell was nearer than they supposed.
The surgeon of the Sixth Iowa Infantry fell into the enemy's hands early on the morning of the first day of the battle, and established a hospital in our abandoned camp.

His position was at a small log-house close by the principal road.

Soon after he took possession, the enemy's columns began to file past him, as they pressed our army.