Hey everyone, thanks for tuning in to episode number 119 of our

Civil War Podcasts. I'm Rich. And I'm Tracy. Hello y'all. Welcome to the

podcast. Last week, as y'all will recall, we talked about the Confederate

Assaults on the enemy position that came to be known as the Hornets Nest,

where the divisions of Herlbit and Debbie H. L. Wallace and the remnant of

Princess's command made their stand in the center of the Embattled Union line.

In many early histories of the Battle of Shiloh, the Hornets Nest played a

starring role with the Union defensive stand there saving the day for grant.

But some of the more recent accounts of the Battle have played down the

importance of the Federal stand at the Hornets Nest, and recently some

historians have argued against the Longheld belief that the spot was the

scene of the most important fighting during the battle. In reference to the

Battle of Shiloh, the Hornets Nest quickly became a household name, and one

can understand why. I mean, it just sounds like the spot where the most

ferocious fighting would take place, right? And if we're honest, the very name of

the position no doubt helped the combat there assume mythical proportions.

And then the later drama that will play out there, which we haven't got to yet,

but as we'll see later on, while Sherman and McLearned and Herlbit all

eventually withdraw to Grant's final defensive line,

Prenniss and Wallace don't fall back, and they literally held the Hornets Nest

until their commands were surrounded and captured. So the way that disaster

played out also gained more attention for the Hornets Nest, making it seem as

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