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Battle of Shiloh. Lina Brouse. What. The battle of Shiloh was a series of three main battles in Sharpsville, Tennessee. Grant, a Union Commander, was holding ground well until the weather forced him and his army to set up camp and wait for General Buell ’ s reinforcements. What Continued. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The battle of Shiloh was a series of three main battles in Sharpsville, Tennessee. Grant, a Union Commander, was holding ground well until the weather forced him and his army to set up camp and wait for General Buell’s reinforcements..
Waiting and weak, Johnston’s Confederate army intended to strike them at Pittsburgh landing that night
this battle began April 6, 1862 early morning and lasted until night
South western Tennessee Sharpsville
…was near a small church on the west bank of the Tennessee River. The
Confederates struck, wanting to drive the Union defenders away from the river and
into the swamps of Owl Creek to the west, before Buell’s army arrived.
Instead they fell northeast onto “the Hornet’s Nest”, a sunken road.
General Johnston was killed by a stray bullet during the day. Beauregard, his second in command, decided not to go through with the assassination of the
final Union army
The confederates had to retreat and had no hope in blocking the
Union advance into northern Mississippi.
UnionMajor General Ulysses S. Grant Major General Don Carlos Buell
ConfederatesGeneral Albert Sidney Johnston
General P.G.T. Beauregard
Union Casualties 1,754 killed
8,408 wounded2,885 missing & captured
13,047 total
Out of 65,085soldiers
Confederate Casualties1,728 killed
8,012 wounded959 missing & captured
10,669 total Out of 44,968 soldiers
Until the Battle of Antietam, this was the bloodiest battle with 23,746 casualties.