The Battle of Shiloh,
or Pittsburg Landing.

DON CARLOS BUELL
To

Professor Henry Coppee [Editor],

United States Service Magazine,

Philadelphia, Pa.

Major General Sherman is apprehensive that the sketch of
Lieutenant General Grant published in the June number of the
United States Service Magazine, is "likely to perpetuate an error,
which General Grant may not deem of sufficient importance to
correct". He reminds you that his "life is liable to cease at any
moment" — says that he "happens to be a witness to certain
truths which are now beginning to pass out of memoiy, and from
what is called history" — a result which it appears he does not
like; and on these grounds, he asks you to excuse a "long letter",
which he informs you "is very unusual" for him, and which I
have only seen in the papers of this city, under the caption of "A
Vindication of General Grant"

General Sherman tells you that "as General Taylor is said in
his lattei days to have doubted whether he was at the battle of
Buenavista at all, on account of the many things having transpired
there, according to the historians, which he did not see, so he
(General Sherman) begins to doubt whether he was at the battle
of Pittsburg Landing of modern description"; but he omits to
mention, by way of petfecting the comparison that General
Taylor was the Commander-in-Chief at the battle of Buenavista,
and that his doubt had allusion to the pretensions of an ambitious
subordinate, whose position was, perhaps, more analagous to