Battle of Shiloh

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Battle of Shiloh

• The Bloody Battle
• Also Known As
• The Hornets Nest

The Bloody Battle Also Known As The Hornets
Nest
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Generals in the War

• McD. McCook,
• General Thomas
• Colonel Garesche
• Col. Moses B. Walker's
• Maj. C. Goddard
• Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant
• Gen. Benjamin M. Prentiss's

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Generals in the War Continued

• General H.W. Halleck
• Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard

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Setting

• Near the banks of the Tennessee River  at Shiloh,
  Tennessee.
• Near Hardin County, Tennessee

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Principal Commanders

• Principal Commanders were Maj. Gen. Ulysses S.
  Grant and Maj. Gen. Don Carlos Buell US Gen.
  Albert Sidney Johnston and Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard
  CS

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Who was involved

• Forces Engaged Army of the Tennessee and Army of
  the Ohio (65,085) US Army of the Mississippi
  (44,968) CS
• Union Army
• Confederate Army

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Casualties

• Estimated Casualties
• There were 23,746 total
• There were US 13,047 Union casualties
• There were CS 10,699 Confederate casualties

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The Battle of Shiloh

• At 500 on Sunday morning of April 6, 1862,
  40,000 Confederate soldiers in three battle lines
  were set in motion toward the unsuspecting Union
  camp at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River.
  By 1000am they had driven through the camps of
  three Union divisions, sending the surprised
  blue-clad soldiers reeling back toward the river.
  Gen. Benjamin M. Prentiss's Union division was
  pushed back almost a mile and took up a good
  defensive position on high ground along a sunken
  road. Other units formed on either side of it in
  an attempt to slow the Confederate onslaught.
  Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant looked over the new
  and ordered Prentiss to "maintain that position
  at all hazards."

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Continued

• By now Johnston had been killed, and Gen. P.G.T.
  Beauregard took command of the Rebel forces. He
  massed 62 cannon at point-blank range and at
  about 400pm began a bombardment with shell and
  canister that was like "a mighty hurricane
  sweeping everything before it." The Hornets' Nest
  exploded under the fire, but still Prentiss and
  his men held on, their lines bending back into a
  horseshoe shape as more and more pressure was
  applied to their flanks. By 530 they were
  completely surrounded and being attacked on all
  sides. Unable to do any more to obey Grant's
  order, Prentiss ordered cease-fire and
  surrendered his remaining 2,200 men. However, his
  gallant defense had given Grant the time he
  needed to construct a new line to the rear.

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Fascinating Facts

• Fascinating Fact The 62 cannon massed at the
  Hornets' Nest was the largest concentration of
  artillery yet to be assembled in an American war.
  The Battle of Shiloh was the largest battle
  fought on American soil up to that time.

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How it got the name the Hornets Nest

• The Rebel troops continued crashing and screaming
  through the woods. A Confederate attack led by
  Gen. Benjamin M. Prentiss's broke through Union
  troops in the Peach Orchard on Prentiss's left,
  and the Rebels pushed back the troops on his
  right, leaving what was left of Prentiss's
  division without support. Charge after charge- 12
  in all -was made against Prentiss's position, and
  each was repulsed with great slaughter. "It's a
  hornets' nest in there!" cried the Rebels,
  recoiling from the blasts of canister and rifle
  fire, and the name stuck.

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Pictures

                                    
Major-General Lew Wallace
Brigadier-General W. H. L. Wallace
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Pictures.

• Union Gunboat

Union Gunboat
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Pictures.

Hornet's Nest
Getting Ready To Fight
Getting Into Position
lt-The Yankees
A RagTag Bunch -gt
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BIBLIOGRAPHY

• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• http//encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.
  aspx?refid761554023
• http//encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.
  aspx?refid761567354sec60s60
• http//www.nps.gov/shil/
• http//www.collectorsnet.com/cwtimes/shiloh.htm
• http//www2.cr.nps.gov/abpp/battles/tn003.htm
• http//www.civilwar.com/

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The Battle of Shiloh
The End