noon
His whole camp had been taken . His second line also had been driven in . Many thousands of men had fallen and other thousands had been taken . Thirty of his cannon were in the hands of the enemy , and although noon had now come and gone there was no sound to betoken the coming of the troops led by Wallace or Nelson . Well might Grant 's own stout heart have shrunk appalled from the task before him . Wallace was held back by confused orders , pardonable at such a time . The eager Nelson was detained at Savannah by Buell , who thought that the sounds of the engagement they heard in the Shiloh woods was a minor affair , and who wanted Nelson to wait for boats to take him there .