Battle of ShilohBy: Tyler Soluri

• Start: April 6th, 1862 • End: April 7th, 1862

• Total number of troops to start:

1) Confederate: 40,000 men2) National:30,000 men

• Total number of troops lost:1) Confederate: 10,000 men2) National: 15,000 men

Main Goal of Battle• Everyone wanted possession of an intersection

between Charleston and Memphis which would give them the control of the railroad communications between the Mississippi and the East, border slave labor states, and the Gulf of Mexico.

• General Albert Sidney Johnston led the Confederates until P.G.T. Beauregard took over the second day, while Ulysses S. Grant led the Federal forces.

Summary: Day 1It was the morning of April 6th, 1862 and Confederate

general Albert Sidney Johnston decided to take out a line of Union soldiers who has occupied land near Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee river. As the sounds of rifles went back and forth through the air there was a cloud of smoke. Ulysses S. Grant was overwhelmed by the attack and decided to back off. By early afternoon, most of the federals had been drove out of the area but a few stood there ground and this is where many lives were lost. The battle line existed on sunken road which was known as the “Hornet’s Nest.” Confederates appointed P.G.T. Beauregard to take over because Johnston was severely injured that day.

Summary: Day 2Ulysses S. Grant sent for reinforcements

which showed up the next day on April 7th, 1862. With the soldiers that were already there, the Federals now had about 40,000 men which outnumbered the Confederates number of 30,000 soldiers. With the dominating number of people, Grants led his Federal troops into a battle which overpowered Beauregard's Confederates. If back-up didn’t show up, The federals would have most likely been defeated which would have changed the course of the civil war completely. This battle was the bloodiest one at it’s time and caused a significant amount of pain to both union and Confederate troops.

Work Cited“Shiloh.” Pittsburg Landing. Hardin County, Tennessee. Web. Dec. 2013.

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