Tuesday, 8th Last night it rained nearly all night. Our wounded were gathered up and attended to. I saw many of our wounded officers to day. I was put on board the Hiawatha and found very good quarters. More prisoners were brought in to day. The rebels had fallen back to Corinth entirely disconcerted and the prisoners verify that they will not make much more resistance, but think they will yield ere long.
[orders and circulars Loren would, or should, have seen concurrent with his diary entries...]
Head Quarters Dist of West Tenn. Pittsburg, April 8th, 1862
General Orders no. 34 } The General Commanding congratulates the troops who so gallantly maintained their position, repulsed and routed a numerically superior force of the enemy, composed of the Flower of the Southern Army, commanded by their ablest Generals and fought by them with all the desperation of despair. In numbers engaged, no such conflict ever took place on this continent; the importance of results but few such have taken place in the History of the World.
Whilst congratulating the brave and gallant soldiers it becomes the duty of the General Commanding to make Special Notice of the brave wounded and those killed upon the field. While they leave friends and relatives to mourn their loss they have now a nation’s gratitude and undying laurels not to be forgotten by future generations who will enjoy the blessings of the best Government the sun ever shone upon, by their valor.
By order of Maj. Gen. U. S. Grant, Comdg.
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