Battle of Shiloh

Grant's unawareness that there were any Confederates in the area.

They noted that his men were resting easy by the Tennessee river, and launched an attack that would have overwhelmed them, had it been continued. But the Confederate commander called a halt for the night, and by next morning Grant's troops had rallied, helped by reinforcements from the East.

IMPROVEMENT

The Confederate commander, gen. Beauregard was forced to suspend further assaults against Grant's positions after the last desperate Confederate attack against the line of Dill's Branch was repealed with heavy losses by the fire of Webster's 50 guns battery and that of gunboats Tyler and Lexington, preventing them definitively from sweeping the Union's left wing away from the vital position of Pittsburg Landing.

Furthermore, Beauregard, aware he had lost the initiative and the enemy Army was gaining the superiority, decided to pull back his lines to better face the counterattack

which would follow next morning.

General Grant and about 40,000 troops the headed South along the Tennessee River toward Corinth,Mississippi, and important railroad junction. While waiting for reinforcements from General Buell, the Federals were attacked at Pittsburg Landing. It became the Battle of Shiloh. The Battle Of Shiloh lasted two days, with some of the most bitter, bloody fighting of the war. The losses of the Battle of Shiloh were enormous. Together the two armies suffered more than 20,000 casualties. Confederate general Johnston also died in the bloodbath. After the narrow victory of Shiloh, Union forces gained control of Corinth on May 30. The date of the battle, in the Spring of 1862 was a terrible Southern defeat and many Northern critics blamed General Grant for the heavy Union casualties. With that said, it was too early in the war to say how it really may have effected the outcome. One thing is certain however, if the Union had lost the battle, it would have altered their approach to the Western Theater.

As an aside, Grant's commanding officer, Henry Halleck was very upset with General Grant. Halleck left his headquarters in St. Louis to take command of Grant's army.

The Battle of Shiloh was an early battle in the US Civil War. It gained fame because of the many soldiers who died in the battle. It was a two day battle and General Grant claimed the victory.

The US Civil War battle of Shiloh was fought by Union and Confederate armies. The battle was fought in April of 1862. Days: 6th and 7th. At Hardin County Tennessee. Southern forces were led by Albert S. Johnston. Union forces were led by US Grant and later by General Buell. After Union reinforcements arrived, the Rebel army was forced to retreat.

The battle was named after the church named Shiloh, nearby to where the Confederates first struck.

The Battle of Gonzales (October 2, 1835) was the result of the attempts of the Mexican government to retrieve a small smooth bore cannon (six pounder) that had been given in 1831 to the settlers at Gonzales as a defense against attacks by Tonkawa and Comanche Indians.

This was the first battle of the Texas Revolution (1835-1836).

The Battle of Shiloh began in Tennessee on April 6, 1862 and was one of the bloodiest ones to date. Major officers for the Union were:

1. Ulysses S. Grant 2. General Don Carlos Buell 3. General Lovell Rousseau

For the Confederacy: 1. General Albert S. Johnston 2.General P. T. G. Beauregard

Fredericksburg

I'm pretty sure it's the battle of shilOh. I'm doing the Same homework bud

April 6, 1862

Vicksburg, Gettysburg and Chattanooga (and one could probably include Burnside's successful defence of Knoxville as well). Stones River, Wauhatchie, and Collierville (Tenn) Champions Hill, Grand Gulf, Port Gibson (Miss)

General Albert S. Johnson led the Confederate Army of the Mississippi. His plan of a surprise attack seemed to be working fine as the Federals were hastily forced into a retreat. Johnston's original plan of attack was to assemble his army in a single battle line with one corps held back as a reserve. His experienced General PT Beauregard offered to Johnston a different formation of attack which Johnston accepted. This involved forming multiple lines of attack. On its surface, there was nothing wrong with Beauregard's plan. The problem that did arise was due to this "last minute" change of plans. The result was that officers were given command over units that they were unfamiliar with. The advance of the lines of attack were not properly coordinated which hampered the effectiveness of the attack.

The usual answer is that the Confederates erred in allowing themselves to be stopped and diverted by the effort to clear Yankee holdouts from a patch of woods called the "Hornet's Nest". The thinking is that the Confederates should have continued to sweep across the battlefield and follow through on their success, and then returned to mop up the Hornet's Nest later.

But recent research has thrown this supposition into some doubt. Analysis of Confederate regimental losses during the battle seems to indicate that much less attention was paid to eliminating the Hornet's Nest than postwar accounts of the battle had led historians to believe.

I would say a much more serious error was the battlefield formation adopted by the Rebels. In every other major battle of the war, the armies of both sides fought with the corps of their armies side by side. This gave each corps commander responsibility for a certain portion of the field, and he had his troops all within reach, some in the front lines, and some behind to reinforce where needed.

The Rebel plan for Shiloh was devised by General Beauregard. His plan had the army's three corps one behind the other, with each extending all the way across the battlefield. This was too wide an area for a corps commander to oversee. Worse, once the front corps encountered the enemy and halted to fight, the second and third lines came up behind and the troops all became jumbled together, and the situation was beyond the ability of any commander to control. General Johnston realized this fatal defect in the plan drawn up by his second in command, Beauregard, but by the time he did it was too late to change Beauregard's arrangements. Then when Johnston was killed, the "excitable" Beauregard was unable to cope with the confusion engendered by his own plan.

He was a General in the Mexican war and the civil war. He was also heralded as the early civil wars best general.

The Battle of Shiloh took place over two days, April 6-7, 1862, in southwest Tennessee.

The Union casualties at the Battle of Williamsburg were 2,293 men.

It was fought outside Washington D.C.

It is his way of announcing, HEY, IM HERE. NOTICE ME!! It also tells you that he is annoyed that you are in his area. Its like you clearing your throat in a room to get attention to yourself.

The Union troops were led by U.S. Grant, with Divisional commanders that included Sherman, McClernand and both the Wallaces, one of them the author of Ben-Hur. General Don Carlos Buell arrived with reinforcements before dawn on the second day.

The Confederates were led by Sidney Johnston (no relation to Joe Johnston), rated by many as the best General in the South. He was killed in this battle. His second-in-command was P.G.T. Beauregard, who took over.

Union and Confederate forces suffered severe casualties at the Battle of Shiloh. Confederate casualties amounted to 10, 699 and Union casualties were 13, 047. This battle was the bloodiest one in the war at that time in April 1862.

It was in the middle of the night - too late to make any difference.

After Grant's early blunder - almost letting his army be pushed into the river - a lot of other Generals tried to claim that they had rescued the situation. But Grant actually kept his nerve and rescued it himself.

The Confederate army was probably very happy the first day; they had a very successful start. The next day they lost, so the Union was probably happy.

The Battle of Shiloh, Tennessee (or Pittsburgh Landing) April 6th to April 7th, 1862. However, General Albert Sidney Johnson was killed in the first day of the battle, so Major General Ulysses S. Grant was fighting P.G.T. Beauregard's Army of Tennessee on April 7th, 1862.

who was the union general at the battle of fredericksberg

this Dick :)

Im not positive that this is right, but I'm pretty sure that the importance was to imspire America to help rebel, and take action.