Battle of Shiloh

The Federal Army with 12,447 casualties, including prisoners and missing.

General Lee didn't fight at Shiloh.

Grant was criticised for being taken unawares on the first day. There were even rumours that he was drunk, but he was the victim of much political slander.

The main result was that the Confederacy had lost Western Tennessee, and the Union had an army of 100,000 men ready to drive them out of Mississippi.

Ulysses S. Grant

The Confederates had a big advantage - Grant didn't know they were there!

Then the Confederate's top General was killed, and Grant got reinforcements.

This Union win spelt the end of Confederate ascendancy in Western Tennessee.

It marked the end of Confederate dominance of Western Tennessee.

Mindful of the experience made at the battle of Shiloh, Grant never more neglected of making his battle line covered by field fortification.

Even during the attacking phases of a battle, the advancing units were ordered to entrench in the best possible way the ground they gradually would conquer, thus preventing them from being driven back by an enemy counterattack and from suffering excessive losses during the fighting.

It gained a stronger union.

the union; the confederates surrendered.

Confederates trying to push Grant's army into a swamp, and when that failed, to push them into the Tennessee River.

1 person died and 1 was in hospital.

During the Battle of Pea Ridge, which took place from March 7 to March 8, 1862, Union forces, commanded by Brigadier General Samuel R. Curtis, numbered approximately 10,500 troops. The Confederate forces, led by Major General Earl Van Dorn, had around 16,000 soldiers. This battle was significant as it helped secure Missouri for the Union during the American Civil War.

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Albert Sidney Johnston

Ulyssess. Grant

Grant and Garfield, maybe others.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

The Battle of Shiloh was fought on April 6-7, 1862. 23,746 soldiers were killed or wounded in the battle, 13,047 Union soldiers and 10,699 Confederate soldiers. The battle was a union victory, but the heavy casualties demonstrated that the war would be bloody and difficult.

It slowed down the union conquest of the mississippi area

Good question.

It was nearly a Confederate victory. Grant was not expecting any action for a while. So he was caught off-guard and his army was nearly pushed into the river.

It was able to rally just in time - thanks to whom is uncertain. The arrival of reinforcements (somewhat delayed) under Don Carlos Buell may have been one factor.

Also one brigade, under John McClernand, had been kept on the alert throughout, and McClernand claimed, quite plausibly, that he had saved the situation. (Dramatically, he could also claim that the Confederate commander, the brilliant Sidney Johnston, had been killed outside McClernand's tent.)

This was making Grant look foolish, especially as McClernand was always giving interviews to the press, wanting credit for his brigade. Also McClernand was one of the 'politicians in uniform' always mistrusted by West Pointers like Grant.

Whatever the truth of the matter, there would always be bad blood between Grant and McClernand, and this is believed to have slowed down the Vicksburg campaign, when McClernand had raised a new unit that he treated like a private army, rather than an integral part of Grant's force.

Still, the Union victory at Shiloh was most significant. The death of Johnston greatly damaged Confederate effectiveness and morale, Western Tennessee and the Mississippi would be liberated before long, and Grant's reputation made.

For the Union, U.S.Grant in his first big battle, which he nearly lost on the first day.

For the Confederates, Sidney Johnston, regarded as the best General in the South, killed in this battle.