I've posted this before on the Shiloh message boards awhile back. I ran across a note supposedly written by Robert Cobb concerning the battery's actions at Shiloh but cannnot find the source where it came from so it has to be taken with a grain of salt. It sounds like something from a Confederate Veteran or Southern Bivouac article but I haven't been able to find it yet. The website I found it on has since dissapeared so I have no clue where it is from.

" Robert says that due to his inexperience and excitement at the time, he and his crews thought that they were doing a good job of shooting and killing. "No orders came and no orders were given so we just stayed and fired and fought. We did not know how to withdraw, we had never done that in drill. The yankees came upon us with much confusion and dispute, so we gave way. (Cobb's guns were overrun by the 14th Regiment, Wis. with Col. D.E. commanding). By this time, it was early afternoon."
"Our third section was still limbered, so we embraced them and while looking for a place to light," spied Capt. Byrne, "also of Kentucky. So we naturally unlimbered on his right and started shooting into a fence row. We felt unprotected because no one was on our right hand. Gen. Ruggles, later referred to us (Cobb's Battery) as being Gen. Trabue's battery of Kentucky."
"About 4:00 p.m., a man of ours found us and said that he had kept sight of our original guns from a distance and that they could be ours again. We quietly, and without ados, brought out guns and wounded and dead." "

I would love to locate the source of these statements so the question could be finally answered.
Ray