History of Civil War in 10 Battles, Part 4: The Battle of Shiloh

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🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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The Battle of Shiloh was a battle in the Western Theater fought April 6–7, 1862, in southwestern Tennessee. On the first morning, 40,000 Confederate troops struck Union Soldiers at Pittsburg Landing. They were under the command of Major General Ulysses S. Grant. The Confederate Army of Mississippi, under the command of General Albert Sidney Johnston, launched a surprise attack on Grant's army from its base in Corinth, Mississippi. Johnston was mortally wounded during the fighting; Beauregard took command of the army and decided against pressing the attack late in the evening. Overnight, Grant was reinforced by one of his divisions stationed further north and was joined by three divisions. The Union forces began an counterattack the next morning which reversed the Confederate gains of the previous day.

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1:26.0	Welcome to our special series on the most important battles in the Civil War.
1:31.1	Civil war is heating up.
1:32.1	It is not going to be a 90-day affair as Lincoln previously hoped.
1:37.4	We looked at the border states in the previous episode and also the war in the west in 1861
1:44.9	and 1862.
1:46.1	How can Turkey's mostly loss the Confederacy?
1:49.1	Now we're going to look at a battle that you've probably heard of.
1:52.6	That is the Battle of Shiloh.
1:54.3	James, how does this all start?
1:58.0	Well, we had talked about Albert Sidney Johnston, who was the overall commander of Confederate
2:06.4	forces west of the Appalachians.
2:09.3	He had a huge theater of war going all the way from Eastern Kentucky all the way over
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