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Historic Plaque #I: Prentiss' (6th) Division, Army of the Tennessee

Inscription Reads:
U. S.
SIXTH DIVISION, ARMY OF THE TENNESSEE.
BRIG. GEN. BENJAMIN M. PRENTISS, (Captured).
1st Brigade, Col. Everett Peabody, 25th Mo., (Killed).
2d Brigade, Col. Madison Miller, 18th Mo., (Captured).
1st Battery, Minn.Lt.Arty., Capt. Emil Munch, (w'd).
Lieut. William Pfaender.
5th Battery, Ohio Lt.Arty., Capt. Andrew Hickenlooper.
2d and 3d Battalions, 11th Ill. Cavalry, Col. Robt.G.Ingersoll
On the 6th day of April, 1862, this division was being
organized from new troops as they arrived upon the field.
Seven regiments of infantry, two batteries of artillery and
two battalions of cavalry had reported, been assigned to bri-
gades, and were encamped across the Eastern Corinth Road. The
15th and 16th Iowa and 23d Missouri regiments, under orders
to report to this division, were on boats just arrived at the
Landing.
The 15th and 16th Iowa were sent to reenforce Gen. McClern-
and and did not join this division until after the battle. The
23d Missouri reported to Gen. Prentiss at his third position.
A reconnoitering party sent out from this division engaged
of Hardee's pickets at 4.55 a.m. April 6, 1862 and opened the
battle of Shiloh.
The division engaged the enemy in front of its camp early
in the morning. It fell back to its camp and continued the
engagement until 9 a.m., when it retired to its third position,
between the 2d and 4th Divisions, northwest of the Peach
Orchard. At 5.30 p.m. it was surrounded and its commander
and 1008 men captured.
The division had present for duty, including the 15th
and 16th Iowa and the 23d Missouri, officers and men, of all
arms, 7545.
Its loss was 236 killed; 928 wounded; 1008 missing;
Total, 2,172.

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Unit Commander: BG Benjamin M. Prentiss (c)
Brigade: *
Division: 6th Division
Corps: Unknown
Army: Army of the Tennessee
Grid Location: E10 *
Location: 35.12616667,-88.3402
Location Description: On Eastern Corinth road near Spain field.
* Grid Location is the location identifier that is used on paper maps in the parks.