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Subject(s)

• Shiloh, Battle of, Tenn., 1862 [Browse]
• Shiloh National Military Park (Tenn.)—Guidebooks [Browse]
• Shiloh National Military Park (Tenn. and Miss.)—Guidebooks [Browse]

Related name

• Luvaas, Jay [Browse]
• Bowman, Stephen [Browse]
• Fullenkamp, Leonard [Browse]
• Army War College (U.S.) [Browse]
• Bowman, Stephen Lee [Browse]

Series

• U.S. Army War College guides to Civil War battles [More in this series]
• The U.S. Army War College guides to Civil War battles

Summary note

• One of the bloodiest and most bitterly fought battles of the Civil War took place at Shiloh Church (and Pittsburg Landing) on April 6-7, 1862. The Union, led by Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman, held off a massive Confederate offensive led by Albert Sidney Johnston and P.G.T. Beauregard, paving the way for Union control of the Western Theater. When the fighting ended, nearly 20,000 soldiers were either dead or wounded, and the South had lost one of its ablest commanders in Johnston.
• Guide to the Battle of Shiloh combines eyewitness accounts of this Tennessee battle with explicit details about advances and retreats, leadership strategies, obstacles, achievements, and tactical blunders. In addition, it provides directions to key points on the battlefield as well as maps depicting the action and details of troop positions, roads, rivers, elevations, and tree lines as they were 130 years ago.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243) and index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Guide to the Battle of Shiloh. The strategic situation
• The Confederate plan : Seay Field
• The first day. The Confederates attack
• Rhea Field
• Cleburne's assault
• Shiloh church : Tennessee monument
• McDowell's headquarters
• Owl Creek
• Raith monument
• McClernand's battle
• Gladden's attack
• The attack against Stuart
• Johnston's death
• The Peach Orchard : Bloody Pond
• Defending the flank
• The lost opportunity
• Ruggles's batteries
• The hornet's nest
• The hornet's nest (continued)
• The final assault
• Pittsburg Landing
• Grant in control
• The second day. Buckland's Brigade : Grant's counterattack
• Union counterattack : Water Oaks Pond
• Beauregard's headquarters
• After the battle.

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Other title(s)

Battle of Shiloh

ISBN

0700607838 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^96024199^//r972

OCLC

35029531

RCP

H - S

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