Battle of Shiloh

• southwest Tennessee

• this battle took place on April 6th-7th

• The Union's success of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson opened up opportunity for invasion on the Tennesse River

Confederacy

• Led by General Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. Beaurgard

• 45,000 troops

• on the first day of battle General Johnston was killed

• The Conferderacy attacked before the union Generals could meet

• Major success

• Most blamed Grant for the Union being unprepared, but Lincoln said,"I cannot spare this man;he fights."

Union

• General Grant and Don Carlos Buell

• camped at Pittsburg Landing

• 22 miles north of Cornith,Mississippi

•   Major General William Sherman was the commander at  the Pittsburg Landing camps 

• "Retreat? No. I propose to attack at daylight and whip them."                           -General Grant

• 66,000 soldiers

Hornet's Nest

• is a sunken road

• most soldiers were new recruits because of the casualties of previous battles

• few Union forces held up while Buell arrived with his defenses at the end of the day

• Union wins the Battle of Shiloh

• Beauregard realized he was outnumbered and retreated back to Cornith, Mississippi

• Confederacy surrounded the Union

• Some say the zipping bullets sounded like angry hornets

After the Battle

Union

• 13,000 casualties

Confederacy

• 10,000 casualties

• was the bloodiest battle up to that point in American History

• after this battle, Americans knew this war was going to last a while

Civil war.org

Nps.gov

History.com