This brigade was encamped at Crump's Landing. It
moved out 2 ½ miles on Purdy road to Stony Lonesome and joined the
Second Brigade early Sunday morning, April 6, 1862. At 12m., it started
for Shiloh by a road leading southwesterly toward the right of Sherman's
camp. At about 2:30 p.m. the brigade was counter marched to the Adamsville
and Pittsburg road by which it reached the battlefield about dark and bivouacked
in front of the camp of the Fourteenth Missouri. On Monday the brigade formed
in Perry Field, near McArthur's headquarters; the Twenty-fourth Indiana
on the left, the Eleventh Indiana on the right, and the Eighth Missouri
in reserve. At about 6:30 a.m. it advanced across Tilghman Creek and at
8 a.m. entered the field of Hare's brigade camp. It crossed said field in
a southwesterly direction, driving back the Confederate forces, thence through
the Cresent Field and to McDowell's brigade camp, where it bivouacked Monday
night. Losses during the day, 18 killed and 114 wounded. The Twenty-fourth
Indiana lost its lieutenant colonel, 1 captain, and 1 lieutenant killed.
11th
Indiana - Colonel George F. McGinnis
24th
Indiana - Colonel Alvin P. Hovey
8th
Missouri - Lieutenant Colonel James Peckham