Shiloh+BL3

=**Battle of Shiloh:** = By: Gabrielle Gingrich

1. The battle of Shiloh is the name of my battle. 2. The battle of Shiloh occurred on April 6th and 7th, 1862. 3. The location of the battle was in Hardin County, Tennessee. 4. The officers in charge were: Maj.Gen. Ulysses S. Grant and Maj.Gen. Don Carlos Buell [US]; Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston and Gen. P.G.T. Bearguard[CS].

5. The armies that were in the battles were: Army of Tennessee and the Army of the Ohio. There were 65,085 soldiers in the Union armies. The Confederate army was The Army of Mississippi. They had 44,968 soldiers. 6. The fall of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson lead to the battle of Shiloh. Due to the fall of these forts, Commander Albert Sidney was forced to fall back; in falling back he lost Kentucky and most of west and middle Tennessee. Due to all of this, the Confederate Army had a big retrenchment which was a surprise but a good one for the Union Army. With this,Grant took his army to a southern offensive position near the Tennessee river.

General Johnston[CS] was planning to attack General Grant[US] on April 4th, but the attack got delayed until April 6th.General Johnston surprised the Union Armies and routing many. Federals made a determined stand, they established a battle line at a sunken road, known as the "Hornets nest". General Johnston was mortally wounded and Colonel Nathan Bedford Forrest took over and with his aggressive tactics they influenced Union troops to to go back to Pittsburgh landing. But with General Grants mastery of leading his troop he had done again. The confederate armies ended up falling back all the way to their mid-august offense. The Union troops had won this battle.

7. One of the most strategic move was when General Johnston took his troops to the Tennessee river and had a surprise attack on General Grant. General Grant definitely was not expecting the attack, so that was good on General Johnston's part. The definite turning point in this battle was when Colonel Nathan used aggressive tactics against the Union troops. It gave that Union troops a wake up call which allowed General Grant to come in and use his mastery of his troops to win the battle.

8. The Union troops are the ones who had victory in this battle. If it would not have been for general Grant, they might not have won. It was due to his mastery of how he handled and fought with his troops that they won. It also helped that Colonel Nathan gave the union troops a wake up call.

9. On the Confederate side there were 10,699 deaths. On the Union side there were 13,047 deaths. Together there were 23,746 deaths.

10. The battle of Shiloh had a big impact in the overall civil war. It was one of the most bloodiest battles. It also had one of the highest number of deaths. Although it had many deaths, it not change the war overall. There was not a lot of change to the war after this battle. There may not be a lot f impact but it was definitely a battle to remember.



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